Unit 1 Week 2 2024-25

looking at information from a local, national, regional or global perspective is known as........

• Infrastructure

• Globalization

• Vernacular studies

• Scales of analysis

• Spatial geographic studies

The expansion of economic, cultural and political processes on a worldwide scale is best known as........

• World system theory

• Globalization

• Regional studies

• Projection

• Spatial patterns

An area of Earth's surface with certain characteristics that make it distinct from other areas is known as.......

• Region

• Pattern

• Clustering

• Contiguous

• site

Highly interconnected, with good transportation and communication networks and infrastructure that supports economic activity

• Nodal region

• Periphery countries

• World System Theory

• Semi- Periphery countries

• Core countries

___________ countries are in the process of industrializing. They are often active in manufacturing and the exporting of goods.

• Core Countries

• Periphery Countries

• Perceptual Countries

• Vernacular Countries

• Semi-Periphery

countries that have less wealth, lower education levels, and less sophisticated technology are considered part of the ______

• Globalized economy

• Vernacular

• Core

• Periphery

• Semi periphery

Companies that conduct research, operate factories, and sells products in multiple countries (Think Nike, Apple, Starbucks) is known as a ____________

• Local corporation

• Agglomerated corporation

• Transnational corporation

• Dispersed corporation

• Functional company

Information measured by numbers is

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

• Field observations

• Spatial data collection

• Vernacular data collection

Data that is collected by using field observations, media reports, travel narratives, or personal interviews is known as

• Census data

• Geographic information systems

• Quantitative data

• Qualitative data

• Geo-Inquiry data

The study of natural processes and the distribution of features in the environment such as landforms, plants, animals, and climate is known as

• Physical geography

• Human geography

• Spatial geography

• Ecological perspective geography

• Globalization