Mr. Perez Geography Quiz

Goes over the 5 Themes of Geography, Population Agglomerations, Types of Regions, Conflicts, and Culture.

Location

Where something is found on earth. One of the 5 Themes.

Place

Describes the physical (found naturally on earth:mountains:rivers etc.) & human/man-made characteristics that make a location unique. One of the 5 Themes

Movement

How and why people move and are connected. One of the 5 Themes.

Human Environment Interaction

Relationship between people and their environment. How people adapt, depend on, or modify their environment.

Functional Region

A region characterized by a region that is centered around a city.

Formal Region

Homogeneous areas where everyone in that region shares attributes or traits.

Political region

A country

Cultural Region

Area where there are many shared cultural traits.

National Region

A region that shares characteristics such as climate, landscape, history, language, or economic activity, rather than strict political boundaries.

Natural Region

Dominated by physical Landscapes.

Agglomeration 1

East Asia Cluster. Korea to Vietnam to China. 1/4 of the population.

Agglomeration 2

South Asia Cluster. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. 20% of the population.

Agglomeration 3

Europe Cluster. Britain to Russia to Italy to France. 15% world’s population.

Agglomeration 4

North America Cluster. Canada to Florida to Mississippi river. 150 million people live here.

Agglomeration 5

Southeast Asia Cluster. Philippines and Indonesia. Nearly 500 million people live on these islands.

Megalopolis

A region made up of several large cities that are close enough to be considered a single urban complex.

Religious Conflict

People fight due to differing interpretations of religious texts, and the desire to spread one's own faith

Nationalism Conflict

Identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations. Pride in one’s country.

Totalitarian vs Democratic

Political Conflict

Coal Mining and Indigenous Communities in India

Modern Development Political

Ethnic/Regional

Political Conflict

Modern Development Conflict

The changing world and its needs has created a variety of conflict around the globe.

Modern Development Social

Music, Cloth, Food

Rich vs Poor

Economic Conflict

Innovation

A new way of doing things

Diffusion

Movement of an innovation through society by spreading and relocating

Levi Jeans

Example of Diffusion

Acculturation and Diffision

Things that can cause culture to change.

Top Three innovations

1.Farming 2. Living in cities 3.Using Machines

Acculturation

When one culture changes through meeting another culture

Industrailization

Using machines to make goods

Traditional Agriculture

Farming crops and raising animals for your benefit only

Commercial Agriculture

Farming crops and raising Animals to sell and make a profit

Culture

Shared patterns of behaviors and interactions learned through the process of socialization. Everyone has this.

Parties or groups or ideologies

Political Conflict

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project

Modern Development Political

People’s beliefs such as religion or politics

1 Factor that makes up Culture

Institutions such as government

1 Factor that makes up Culture

Skills or equipment that makes life easier

1 Factor that makes up Culture