WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY EXAM 1
STUDY GUIDE FULL QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED ANSWERS
●● Human/Cultural Geography
Answer: focuses on the spatial organization of human activity and how
humans make Earth into a home (study of different people in different
places)
Human and Cultural Sciences (economics, anthropology, philosophy,
etc.) help explain this activity
●● Physical Geography
Answer: Concerned with climate, weather patterns, landforms, soil
formation, plant and animal ecology, and human geography.
Physical and Life science help explain these features
●● Environmental Geography
Answer: the study of the interactions between human and physical
geography (ex: how people in CA are coping with the drought)
●● Places
,Answer: all of the different attributes of a location (buildings,
landscaping, trees, etc.)
●● Sense of a place
Answer: what we feel/emotions that are evoked when we think of a
certain place (can change over time and changes from person to person)
●● landscape
Answer: Earth's surface transformed by human activity.
●● Maps and Mapping
Answer: gives us a pattern or spatial distribution of a thing or
phenomena
- maps are subjective
●● Scale
Answer: can make a difference in maps, important to understand
because scale varies from map to map
●● Globalization
Answer: refers to the increasing interconnectedness of different people
in different places around the world (ex: trade, military, tourism,
business)
, System of elements- Political, economic, sociocultural, environmental,
linked together so that a change in one often changes another
●● Region
Answer: Area with a shared characteristic or criteria.
The connections that emerge between and among places over time
-Less criteria = Larger area.
- defined by things like culture or location
●● 5 Characteristics that could define a region
Answer: 1. Culture
2. Directions
3. History
4. Climate
5. Geography
●● Regionalization
Answer: The process of making new global connections that allows or
causes world regions to change
- terms used to describe how and why new regions emerge
STUDY GUIDE FULL QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED ANSWERS
●● Human/Cultural Geography
Answer: focuses on the spatial organization of human activity and how
humans make Earth into a home (study of different people in different
places)
Human and Cultural Sciences (economics, anthropology, philosophy,
etc.) help explain this activity
●● Physical Geography
Answer: Concerned with climate, weather patterns, landforms, soil
formation, plant and animal ecology, and human geography.
Physical and Life science help explain these features
●● Environmental Geography
Answer: the study of the interactions between human and physical
geography (ex: how people in CA are coping with the drought)
●● Places
,Answer: all of the different attributes of a location (buildings,
landscaping, trees, etc.)
●● Sense of a place
Answer: what we feel/emotions that are evoked when we think of a
certain place (can change over time and changes from person to person)
●● landscape
Answer: Earth's surface transformed by human activity.
●● Maps and Mapping
Answer: gives us a pattern or spatial distribution of a thing or
phenomena
- maps are subjective
●● Scale
Answer: can make a difference in maps, important to understand
because scale varies from map to map
●● Globalization
Answer: refers to the increasing interconnectedness of different people
in different places around the world (ex: trade, military, tourism,
business)
, System of elements- Political, economic, sociocultural, environmental,
linked together so that a change in one often changes another
●● Region
Answer: Area with a shared characteristic or criteria.
The connections that emerge between and among places over time
-Less criteria = Larger area.
- defined by things like culture or location
●● 5 Characteristics that could define a region
Answer: 1. Culture
2. Directions
3. History
4. Climate
5. Geography
●● Regionalization
Answer: The process of making new global connections that allows or
causes world regions to change
- terms used to describe how and why new regions emerge
