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Reading Reaction Questions

These questions highlight some of the important aspects of the chapter. Most of the test questions will be taken from the reading reaction questions so completing these assignments will improve your test scores. 

Ch1  Globalization and World Regions
  1. Describe, in your own words the facets of globalization.
     
  2. Describe, in your own words the facets of localization.
     
  3. From the Global Focus: 911 section on page 4, why did the US give both military and economic support to Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein?
     
  4. What is the role of countries defined in the section on Diverse Worlds?
     
  5. In the Point counter Point section, what does Peter D. Sutherland mean when he says that "globalization expands the geographic scale of powers"? To which powers is he referring? What examples does he give of uneven geographic effects?
     
  6. Name some of the organizations that countries have formed at the world regional level.
     
  7. You authors claim that the proportion of very poor people fell from 85% in 1820 to 20% in 2000. What is the measure used to determine whether someone is "very poor"?
     
  8. How do your authors define culture?
     
  9. Why do many people around the world oppose Western cultures?
     
  10. What is a "natural environment"?
     
  11. What is a "cultural landscape"?
     
  12. What definition does your book give for the subject matter of geography?
     
  13. What is the difference between physical geography and human geography?
     
  14. How do you define "place"?
     
  15. What is absolute location? How is it measured?
     
  16. What is relative location?
     
  17. Why do maps require a projection?
     
  18. What does regional geography study?
      
  19. What are human-environment investigations? How has the field changed recently?
     
  20. What are nodes within regions? explain.
     
  21. In what sense to people create regions?
     
  22. On what basis does your text divide the world into nine major regions?
     
  23. When and where did settled farming first develop around the world?
  24. Where and what were the first city-states and empires?
     
  25. Define feudalism.
     
  26. What were the major colonial powers around 1910?
     
  27. Protectionism grew toward the late 1800s. What steps did countries take to reduce their international linkages?
     
  28. How did the Great Depression slow globalization?
     
  29. Name some of the international institutions that came into being after WWII.
     
  30. Describe the debate over the effectiveness of the UN after 1991.

 

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