Geography WGU C255 Questions and Answers

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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 Intern ... ational 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 [Show More]

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