Geography Chapter Summary

It was a slow scoring first half that ended knotted at 30, thanks to a Dallas Ennema tip in at the buzzer. Stony Brook survived the first 20 despite only having their star player Jameel Warney available for 7 minutes due to foul trouble.

C.A country likely constitutes a formal political region because within its boundaries certain conditions of nationality, law, and political tradition prevail.

Over the course of the centuries maps have been used to find locations all over the world. They have evolved and to become more advanced, thanks to technology. Of course, there are specific ways to use a map such as basic components. Basic components include a compass rose which indicates the cardinal directions. Legends is the key where symbols are used to help find a point on the map, or in other words, lead the way. A scale can range from as far as a continent to as close as a house. All these components are important while using a map.

Interconnection is the concept that anything we study in geography can't just be thought about or viewed on its own. It needs to be considered by thinking about and looking carefully at how it is connected to other things.

1. If you are New York and it is 8 a.m and you call your friend in Los Angeles, what Coast are you calling? What time will it be for them?

North-Eastern region of the United States has been serving as the backbone of US economy in many respects. Obviously, it is densely populated region of the US due to the presence of megacities like New York, Philadelphia and the capital Washington DC. The size and number of airports in this regions also reflects the movement of people and flow of business in this region. Here most of the major city areas lie in the Atlantic coastal plain, whereas mountains and hills are also significantly affecting the the forest coverage as well as the climate of this area. More particularly, the climate is regulated by the position of the general west to east flow of weather in the middle latitudes.

In many cases, sinkholes don’t form suddenly - they happen very slowly over many months or years. Signs and symptoms that may indicate a possible sinkhole collapse

The physical geography in Switzerland plays a key role in the life of everyday citizens, from the climate, to the biome, to the significant landforms, to features that impact everyday life. Moving on to the mountainous terrain of Switzerland, where visitors see a climate that reacts to the elevation, the highlands, that brings lots of precipitation. This results in Switzerland gets 1000 to 1500 millimeters of precipitation a year. The elevation will affect the temperatures, the temperatures for the summer are pretty cold 41 degrees Fahrenheit to 56 degrees Fahrenheit; the temperatures for winter is 25 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit. This makes transportation to places during the year harder; meaning there has to be many winter

The five themes of geography are location, place, human environmental interaction, movement and region. Location has 2 parts, absolute and relative. St. Croix Falls absolute location is 45.4100° N, 92.6397° W, whereas St. Croix Falls relative location is about 1.5 hours from Stillwater, MN. Place is also split into 2 parts, human and physical. Human would be like Lions Park or Interstate Park. The physical would be the St. Croix River. Human environmental interaction is next and, yes, it also has 2 parts, adapt and change. The citizens of St. Croix Falls adapted to the river my building a dam on it, another way they could have adapted could have been to the cold in the winter. The change would be like if the fish were dying out because of

The 5 themes of geography are location, place, movement, interaction and region. Location tells you where a place is. Place shows you what it’s like when you get there. Movement helps people and ideas get around. Interaction is what the people do to the environment and what the land does for the people. Region is what cultures have in common.

Before starting this course, I had a preconceived notion that I would learn about geographical features and memorize places all around the world. I did not expect to learn about topics such as globalization, political geography, or industries and services. I was surprised at what all we learned in such a short period of time. I gained a new prospective and information about the world around me. Throughout the semester, my understanding and knowledge about geography has drastically changed from before this course. This course has made me think about topics and things that I have never reflected upon. I have had this standard premonition of geography as just places or maps, but there is so much more. I enjoyed learning about the different races, history of gender equality, and religions of the world the most. Geography has influenced my political, social, and economic views of the world.

What is geography? Author Alastair Bonnett attempts to answer this question in the book titled the same. He states that geography is a “human enterprise...[that] is an attempt to find and impose order.”1 He explores the many facets of geography that include history, political power, climate, and the humans that live throughout the world. The first two chapters explain in more detail about how geography is knowing the world through both political order and nature.

What is geography? What do geographers study? How is geography interdisciplinary? What is cartography and GIS? What is the grid system and its parts? What are map projections, and how do they distort the Earth? What is a region and how are they determined? What is a transition zone? What are interregional linkages?

Geography is a science that looks into the description, distribution, and interactions of the physical, biological, and cultural aspects of the world. We study geography because it helps us to better understand our history as well as our current situations. It allows us to see how the world is laid out, however, geography is not just limited to maps. There are many other purposes of geography than just showing us where things are in the world. For example, it tells us about culture in different regions and how people interact with their environment.

Over the past few months, taking Geography has really helped me develop an understanding of several different things. This first thing I learned in this class that really stuck with me this whole semester is what exactly the term “geography” actually means. Before I took this class I thought geography was just capitals of states and countries, and names of rivers and mountains. I thought it was just a basic course to learn a little bit more about the name of places all around the globe. Come to find out, that is not at all what geography has to offer. During this class I have learned many of the basic things I figured I would learn like capitals and names of places but I have also learned so much more than just that. With that being said, I have also learned what the climate is like in different places, for example, in Europe they have a marine like climate with cool and moist winters. I have also learned how to determine if a city is safe and or healthy to be living in, and what kind of other cultures and languages different countries have throughout the world. In Europe, they have several different languages but the few that really stuck out to me were Germanic, Romance, and Slavic. I was really surprised learning about all these different languages because I had no idea they had such a wide variety of languages in that area. In addition to learning about the climates and languages, I have learned how much different farming is all around the world as.