geography final

Another term for “place name”

Toponym

Capital of Iran

Tehran

Capital of China

Beijing

Capital of Japan

Tokyo

Capital of Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar

Capital of Taiwan

Taipei

Capital of North Korea

Pyongyang

Capital of South Korea

Seoul

How many provinces and territories are there total in Canada?

13

Capital of Yukon Territory

Whitehorse

Capital of Northwest Territory

Yellowknife

Capital of Nunavut

Iqaluit

How many territories/provinces are there total in Australia

8

Capital of Northern Territory, Aus

Darwin

Capital of Western Territory, Aus

Perth

Capital of South Australia

Adelaide

Capital of Tasmania

Holbart

Capital of New South Wales

Sydney

Capital of Victoria

Melbourne

Capital of Queensland

Brisbane

What way does weather travel in Australia

East to west

What is the other name for Ayers Rock

Uluru

What is the national capital of Australia

Canberra

What is a population pyramid

Shows the age-sex composition of any country in the world

Which type of region has defined borders?

Formal region

Absolute location

Determined using latitude and longitude

A region named by how it’s perceived by humans

Vernacular region

Refers to a location based on what is nearby

Situation

Founder of Daoism

Lao-Tzu

What separates Europe and Asia

Ural mountains

Another name for the Rub al Khali Desert

Empty quarter

What folk culture honors ancestors by saving their hair

Longhorn Meo

What desert covers most of Mongolia

Gobi desert

Site

Physical and human characteristics of a place

Functional region

Area organized around a node or focal point

Hearth

Where innovation originates and diffuses

Carriers

Human migration, travel, invasion

Barriers

Physical features, politics, language

Relocation diffusion

Physical movement of people

Expansion diffusion

Spread of a feature from one place to another

Hierarchical diffusion

Nodes of power; fashion

Contagious diffusion

Rapid, widespread

What 4 main clusters do people live in

Europe, East Asia, South Asia, SE Asia

Birth rate

Total amount of births per 1000

Death rate

Number of deaths per 1000

Total Fertility rate

Average amount of children born per woman (2.1)

What religion follows the 8-fold path

Buddhism

Chinese believe eating this will give them smooth skin

Snakes skin

Middle East version of Barbie

Fulla

The financial center of Canada

Toronto

A city of over 10 million people

Megacity

Means “wind and water”

Feng Shui

Aborigines living in Kakadu National Park

Gagadju

What peninsula does Turkey sit on

Anatolian peninsula

Aborigine’s theory of creation

Dreamtime

Most photographed symbol of Japan

Mt. Fuji

Highest mountain range in the world

Himalayas

Roof of the World

Tibet

Five regions of China

China Proper, Xinjiang, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Tibet

Soil that causes the Huang He river to overflow

Loess

Regional trading center in the ME

Dubai

Japan’s original inhabitants

Ainu

Archipelago

Group of islands

Antarctica is considered a…

desert

Lambert glacier

Largest in the world

Calving

What pieces of ice do to form icebergs

Crevice

Huge cracks in the ground/ice

Qualities of the ME

1. Birthplace of world’s first civilization

2. Source of 3 major religions

3. Nations are oil wealthy or not

4. Clashes occur frequently

Indo-European languages

Farsi

Altaic languages

Turkish

Afro-asiatic languages

Arabic and Hebrew

Prorupted state

Compact state reaching out for resources

Elongated state

Longer than it is wide

Perforated state

Surrounds a whole country

Landlocked state

No direct access to an ocean

Fragmented state

Smashed into bits

Desertification

Desert eating land

Sahel

Drought ridden climate

How much of Africa is covered in rainforest

8%

Lake Tanganyika

Worlds largest freshwater lake

Lake Chad

Manmade lake

Yangtze River

China’s longest river

Grand Canal

World’s largest inland waterway

Monsoons

Seasonal winds

Three Gorges Dam

China’s greatest project

Diamond capital of Canada

Yellowknife

Victoria Falls is located on this river

Zambezi

World’s largest inland delta found in Botswana

Okavango

Half of the world’s supply of this resource is found in Africa

Gold

Escarpments

Steep cliffs that separate one plateau from another

Lingua Franca of Sub-Saharan Africa

Swahili

Kalahari Desert

Desert found in Botswana

Voodoo started in this country

Benin

Mountains found in the SE part of Africa

Drakensberg

Highest mountain in Africa

Kilimanjaro

This mountain is the wettest spot in Africa

Cameroon

Lake that is the sources of the Blue Nile

Lake Tana

Desert lies across the SW coast of Africa

Namib

Lake known for unique fish

Lake Malawi

Oasis

Created by underground water percolating to the surface in the desert