WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY EXAM 1
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● physical geography
Answer: climate, weather, patterns, landforms, soil formation, and plant
and animal ecology
●● human geography
Answer: spatial organization of human activity and how humans make
Earth into a home
●● Environmental geography
Answer: -connects physical and human geography
-relationship between humans and the natural and built environments in
which they live
●● world regional geography
Answer: describes and examines global geographic processes, while also
explaining why and how certain patterns emerge on the earth
●● 10
Answer: How many world regions are there?
,●● places
Answer: -these are dynamic with changing properties and fluid
boundaries that are the product of a wide variety of environmental and
human factors
-strong influence on physical well-being, opportunities, lifestyle choices
-contribute to people's collective memory and are powerful emotional
and cultural symbols
●● sense of place
Answer: feelings evoked among people as a result of the experiences
and memories they associate with a place and to the symbolism they
attach to that place
●● landscape
Answer: -a built environment
-Earth's surface transformed by human activity
●● region
Answer: -connections that emerge between and among places over time
-when this is on a global scale we call it a world _____________
●● regionalism
, Answer: strong feeling of collective identity often shared by people who
inhabit a region with distinctive characteristics
●● geographical imagination
Answer: how people think about the world around them - their own
places and the places of others
●● map
Answer: a visual representation and generalization of the world
●● system
Answer: a latitude and longitude
●● scale
Answer: can be global, regional, national, or local
●● globalization
Answer: -a system of elements - political, economic, socio-cultural,
environmental - linked so that changes in one element often result in
changes in another
-increases interactions and interdependence between places
-breaks down boundaries, makes places similar, and connects them by
encouraging the flow of ideas, products, and practices
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● physical geography
Answer: climate, weather, patterns, landforms, soil formation, and plant
and animal ecology
●● human geography
Answer: spatial organization of human activity and how humans make
Earth into a home
●● Environmental geography
Answer: -connects physical and human geography
-relationship between humans and the natural and built environments in
which they live
●● world regional geography
Answer: describes and examines global geographic processes, while also
explaining why and how certain patterns emerge on the earth
●● 10
Answer: How many world regions are there?
,●● places
Answer: -these are dynamic with changing properties and fluid
boundaries that are the product of a wide variety of environmental and
human factors
-strong influence on physical well-being, opportunities, lifestyle choices
-contribute to people's collective memory and are powerful emotional
and cultural symbols
●● sense of place
Answer: feelings evoked among people as a result of the experiences
and memories they associate with a place and to the symbolism they
attach to that place
●● landscape
Answer: -a built environment
-Earth's surface transformed by human activity
●● region
Answer: -connections that emerge between and among places over time
-when this is on a global scale we call it a world _____________
●● regionalism
, Answer: strong feeling of collective identity often shared by people who
inhabit a region with distinctive characteristics
●● geographical imagination
Answer: how people think about the world around them - their own
places and the places of others
●● map
Answer: a visual representation and generalization of the world
●● system
Answer: a latitude and longitude
●● scale
Answer: can be global, regional, national, or local
●● globalization
Answer: -a system of elements - political, economic, socio-cultural,
environmental - linked so that changes in one element often result in
changes in another
-increases interactions and interdependence between places
-breaks down boundaries, makes places similar, and connects them by
encouraging the flow of ideas, products, and practices
