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World Geography (Tools of Geography (5 major themes of geography (Place,…
World Geography
Tools of Geography
Geographic Information Systems: A framework for gathering and analyzing data. Data is usually put on top of other maps to visualize data.
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Climate
Climate vs weather: weather is the current weather that includes temperature, conditions, etc. and climate is the weather overtime.
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Map distortions and projections: the Mercator projection is the standard map projection. Maps are all distorted because it is impossible to project a sphere onto a flat surface
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Political Geography
Dividing Political Space
Sovereignty: the authority to make political decisions about control over people, land, and resources. (Political power)
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Geopolitics:Because borders are so important, people are constantly fighting over them. When countries engage in political disputes about geographic boundaries we call this “geopolitics”.
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South China Sea issue: China Wants to claim almost all of the South China Sea, even though the UNCLOS treaty says that they can't.
globalization
the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
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Pros: Decreases taxes, tariffs, etc., encourages global economic growth, and creates jobs.
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Borders
Types of borders
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Physical/natural: A border that follow a natural land feature (e.x. rivers, mountains, etc.)
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Shapes of borders
Compact States: the distance from the center to the edge of the country is roughly the same distance.
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Population
Population Pyramids: Graphs that show the population of people in a certain area split into cohorts and gender.
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