Geography WGU C255 Questions and
Answers
5 themes of geography ✔✔Location, place, movement, region, human environment interaction
Population density ✔✔Number of people per unit area
International date line ✔✔Runs Nor
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Geography WGU C255 Questions and
Answers
5 themes of geography ✔✔Location, place, movement, region, human environment interaction
Population density ✔✔Number of people per unit area
International date line ✔✔Runs North and south through the pacific at 180 east subtracts a day,
west adds a day
Archive circle ✔✔66.5 N
Absolute location ✔✔Exact
Berber culture ✔✔North Africa
Farming destroyed by collectivization ✔✔Soviet Union
Geologically active with many earth quakes ✔✔South Asia
Slash and burn agriculture ✔✔Sub Saharan Africa
Civil war divides by religious lines ✔✔Sub Saharan Africa
Barriers to migration ✔✔Physical, economic, financial, cultural, political
Biome ✔✔A large grouping of ecosystems characterized by particular plant and animal types
Region ✔✔Territory the exhibits uniformity
Formal region ✔✔Uniformity in cultural features. FShared Physical, social, religious, cultural,
one state to another
Perceptual region ✔✔No official boundaries.
Continental climate ✔✔45-60
Subtropical climate ✔✔20-35
Tropical climate ✔✔0-20
Tundra ✔✔60 +
Prone to earthquakes ✔✔Philippines, Ecuador, Kathmandu, Turkey, India
Population distribution ✔✔The placement or arrangement of people within a region
Spatial integration ✔✔Settlement frontier eliminated through the creation of trade areas
Developing nations ✔✔Senegal, Haiti, Taiwan, South Korea, Chile, Thailand, Brazil, Hong
Kong, Maylasia
Less developed ✔✔Sub Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Liberia
Crude birth rate and crude death rate are high ✔✔Developing countries
There is almost the same number of 15 year olds vs 65 year olds ✔✔Germany
Balkanization ✔✔The breakup of a large political unit, Eastern Europe, Ottoman and AustroHungarian
Bedouin ✔✔Nomadic people of North Africa and Middle East
Any Darya River ✔✔In Uzbekistan, flows into Arab Sea
Berbers ✔✔North African, Arabic speaking muslims
Maghreb ✔✔Northwestern Africa including Morroco, Algeria, and Tunisia
Functional region ✔✔Defined by interactions among places such as trade and communication
Vernacular or perceptual ✔✔A region def
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