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World Geography world-map-360 (Migration (Forced Migration: When someone…

- - - - Relative Location: Where something is relative to things around it(by the school)
      - Absolute Location: The exact location of a place(address)
        
        Latitude: Invisible lines running North to South on the globe measuring location from East to West.
        
        Longitude: Invisible lines running from East to West on the globe measuring location from North to South.
      - GPS: Global positioning system, a program that locates you in the world using satellites.
      - Maps
        
        GIS: Geographic information system, a map that is overlaid with information to give you data and statistics.
        
        Map Distortion: No flat maps are accurate because it has to be warped in some way, because the earth is an oblate spheroid.
- - - - Physical/ Natural: When a border runs along a mountain range, river, or some other geographical feature
      - Geometric: Unrelated to cultural and physical differences.
      - Oceanic: When a country is bordered by a large body of water usually the ocean or a sea.
    - - Elongated State: A long skinny territory
      - Fragmented State: A territory separated into many pieces, usually an archipelago
      - Perforated State: A territory that contains another territory within it.
      - Enclave State: A territory that is surrounded entirely by another territory.
      - Prorupted State: A compact state with one piece sticking out of the territory.
      - Exclave State: A piece of a territory that is separated from the main piece.
      - Compact State: A country or territory in which all sides are relatively the same distance from the center.
    - - Territorial Waters: A zone of 12 nautical miles of shore where a country has full soveirgnty over the area
      - Contiguous Zone: The next 12 mile section of the ocean where the country has limited control over the area
      - Exclusive Economic Zone: The are from the coast 200 miles straight out where a country can claim any resources that are found.
      - International Waters: The ocean area that is not claimed by any of this is owned by everyone and no-one can blame the resources as their own
      - Median Line Principle: If two countries are less than 400 miles apart the area between them is split evenly.
  - - - GDP Per Capita: GDP per capita, is the division of the country's gross domestic product by its total population.
    - - First Sector: Harvesting raw materials from the earth
        
        Less Developed Countries
      - Secondary Sector: Creating value from raw materials, manufacturing.,
      - Tertiary Sector: Selling or transporting the manufactured products.
        
        More Developed Countries
    - - Pros
        
        Increased economic growth
        
        Lower government spending
        
        More places to get stuff
        
        Transfered technology
      - Cons
        
        Degradation of natural resources
        
        Increased job outsourcing
        
        Poor worker conditions