GEO 207 WEEK 1 Knowledge Check

GEO 207 WEEK 1 Knowledge Check 
GEO 207 Global Geography
Match the Key Term with the proper definition:
1.      Neocolonialism	1.    The field of geography that focuses on the diverse ways in which people earn a living, and how the goods and services they produce are expressed and organized spatially.	
2.      Regional boundaries	2.    The gradual reduction of regional constrasts at the world scale, resulting from increasing international cultural, economic, and political exchanges.	
3.      Cultural landscape	3.    Representation of a world-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization.  In cartography, the ratio of map distance to ground distance.	
4.      Absolute location	4.    The process of desert expansion into neighboring steppelands as a result of human degradation of fragile semiarid environments.	
5.      Globalization	5.    The term used by developing countries to underscore that the entrenched colonial system of international exchange and capital flow has not changed in the postcolonial era.	
6.      Scale	6.    Literally, "country behind," a term that applies to a surrounding area served by an urban center.	
7.      Cartogram	7.    A specially transformed map not based on traditional representations of scale or area.	
8.      Desertification	8.    The forms and artifacts sequentially placed on the natural landscape by the activities of various human occupants.	
9.      Hinterland	9.    The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude.	
10.      Economic geography	10.    In theory, the line that circumscribes a region.	
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