Geography Terms

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Geography Terms

• People have to adapt to their geography
• It dictates how they live and survive
• Isolates people
• Separates people

• The Incas using terrace farming due to mountainous terrain
• Using irrigation in Mesopotamia to control flooding
• Greek city-states developed because of mountains

• Increases trade and commerce
• Serves as a highway or bridge to connect people and different cultures
• Cultural Diffusion

• Panama Canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean

• It influences the economy
• Good location for trade (port)

• KoreanPeninsula was the cultural highway between China and Japan
• Greece’s economy is heavily influenced by the fishing industry and by trade
• Renaissance in Italy due to trade

• Isolated from other cultures
• Can limit resources
• Can cause a need to be dependent on other societies
• Vulnerable to weather and environment

• PacificIslands sit on The Ring of Fire that expose to volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis
• CaribbeanIslands have little protection from hurricanes

• Isolated from other cultures
• Can limit resources
• Can cause a need to be dependent on other societies

• Japan was isolated until the Meiji Restoration
• Japan did not modernize until the mid to late 1800’s

• Decline in cultural tradition
• May cause poor living conditions
• Modernization
• High Population Density: people live close together

• During the industrial revolution, in England, many people moved to cities, where factories were being built

• Societies are dependent on the land and weather for survival
• societies adapt farming methods to type of topography
• Strong connections to cultural traditions

• Terrace farming in mountainous area
• Irrigation in India eased flooding caused by monsoons and allowed farmers to grow more crops

• Self-sufficient society
• Impacts trade and economy
• People need these things

• Japan is dependent on trade because it lacks natural resources
• Many countries around the world are dependent on oil from the Middle East

• Positive impact on trade and economy
• Creates self-sufficient society

• Industrial revolution began in Great Britainbecause of an abundance of coal, iron ore and access to water

• Society is dependent on other nations (dependence)
• Increases the price of products

• Japan’s lack of natural resources causes it to be dependent on other nations

• Positive and negative impacts farming
• Brings rain that causes fertile soil
• Extreme weather patterns: floods or drought

• Farmers in Southeast Asia depend on the wet monsoons of summer to help grow their crops
• Monsoons flood the rice fields in Southeast Asia

• impacts agriculture
• impacts diet
• impacts clothing

• Russia looks to expand to the south and west to find a warm water port
• Famine in Africa

• lack of farm land
• impacts diet
• impacts health
• isolates people

• Sahara in Africa averages less than 10 inches of rainfall a year causing poor land for farming and raising cattle

• Impacts farming
• Causes isolation
• Natural barrier
• Terraced farming

• The Himalaya Mountains have isolated China and India from the rest of the world
• City-states developed in Greece because mountains prevented unification

• impacts agriculture
• impacts diet

• impacts clothing
• impacts all aspects of life

• Famine in Africa due to poor farming conditions

• impacts trade: control the strait; control the trade

• Strait of Gibraltar’s importance to control trade in the Mediterrean

• Creates a feeling of nationalism
• Creates a common bond for people
• Differences between rights and laws

• Unification movements in Germany and Italy in the late 1800’s

• influences culture
• sharing of ideas
• combining of traditions
• possible improvements to society
• People change their surroundings to meets their needs

• Crusades: Middle Eastern ideas and technology brought back to Europe spark the Renaissance
• Welland Canal in Canada

• influences culture
• sharing of ideas
• combining of traditions

• possible improvements to society

• Spread of Buddhism through Asia
• Spread Islam through North Africa

• conflicts between nations

• Native American belief that land is owned by all vs. European belief of private ownership of land
• Civil war in India between Hindus and Muslims