1. Global 2 R Regents Review Spring 2009
Geography Review

2. Geography What is geography?
Geography is the study of the earth’s surface, climate and topography

3. Why is geography important?
The obvious reasons: we should know where things are
We should know how geography has impacted human development
We should know how and why history has been impacted by the earth

4. Geography
Kinds
Physical
Economic
Human/cultural

5. Physical Geography Topography Continents Mountains Peninsulas Valleys
Deserts
Rain forests

6. Physical Geography
Bodies of water
Oceans
Rivers
Seas
Straits
Canals

7. From weatherwizkids.com
Physical Geography
Climate
Climate is the average weather usually taken over a 30-year time period for a particular region and time period. Climate is not the same as weather, but rather, it is the average pattern of weather for a particular region. Weather describes the short-term state of the atmosphere.
From weatherwizkids.com

8. There are 7 continents Continents Africa Asia North America
South America
Antarctica
Europe
Australia

10. Mountains
Important Mountains
Himalayas
Urals
Alps
Andes

15. A body of land that is surrounded on 3 sides by water
Peninsulas
A body of land that is surrounded on 3 sides by water
Iberian
Italian
Arabian
Korean
Yucatan

21. Rivers & Valleys
Nile
Ganges
Indus
Yellow (Huang He)
Tigris & Euphrates

27. Deserts
A desert is a landscape or region that receives very little precipitation. Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 10 inches.

28. Deserts
Gobi
Sahara

31. Rainforests
The tropical rain forest is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. An average of inches of annual rain fall.
Almost all rain forests lie near the equator.

33. Major Bodies of Water
Oceans
Pacific
Indian
Arctic
Atlantic
Southern

35. Major Bodies of Water Seas Barents Sea Red Sea Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea

36. Major Bodies of Water
Caribbean Sea
Caspian Sea
North Sea
Adriatic Sea

45. Straits
A strait is a narrow body of water between 2 larger bodies of land

46. Straits
Bosporus
Dardanelles
Magellan
Gibraltar

50. Canals
Suez
Panama

53. Economic Geography Agriculture Industrial production Natural resources
Economic systems

54. Economic Geography
Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the Earth
Source: wikipedia.com

59. Human & Cultural Geography
The study of where humans are and what they are doing around the globe.

60. Human & Cultural Geography
Demography
The size and distribution of human population in a given area
Population density

61. Other Geographic Issues
Longitude: imaginary lines on the map that run north/south
These lines begin at zero degrees with that line being called the Prime Meridian
Latitude: imaginary lines on the map that run east/west
These lines begin at zero degrees with that line called the equator

62. Other Geographic Issues
Latin America
Generally speaking, Latin America is composed of Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean Islands
The term Latin America comes from the fact that the two dominant languages, Spanish and Portuguese, are derived from Latin

63. Other Geographic Issues
Asia Minor
Also known as Anatolia, this is the area that encompasses most of modern day Turkey and borders the Black Sea to the North, the Caspian Sea to the northeast and the Mediterranean to the south.

65. Other Geographic Issues
Monsoons
Seasonal winds that bring heavy amounts of rain in the summer
Best example would be Indian monsoons coming off the Arabian Sea and hitting the west coast of India

66. Other Geographic Issues
Ring of Fire
an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean
In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.

68. Other Geographic Issues
Archipelago
A chain of islands
Philippines
Bahamas
Japan