GEO 207 WEEK 7 Knowledge Check

GEO 207 WEEK 7 Knowledge Check
Match the Key Term with the proper definition
1.      Outback	1.    The study of flora (plant life) and fauna (animal life) in spatial perspective.	
2.      Federation	2.    The zoo geographical boundary proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace that separates the marsupial fauna of Australia and New Guinea from the non marsupial fauna of Indonesia.	
3.      Bio geography	3.    The name given by Australians to the vast, peripheral, sparsely-settled interior of their country.	
4.      Environmental degradation	4.    A political framework wherein a central government represents the various subnational entities within a nation-state where they have common interests.	
5.      West Wind Drift	5.    The industries local entrepreneurs establish to serve populations of remote areas when transport costs from distant sources make these goods too expensive to import.	
6.      Unitary state	6.    A narrow marin transition zone, girdling the globe at approximately latitude 40 degrees S, that marks the equatorward limit of the frigid Southern Ocean and the poleward limits of the warmer Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans to the north.	
7.      Wallace's Line	7.    The accumulated human abuse of a region's natural landscape.	
8.      Subtropical Convergence	8.    Spatial pattern in which a country's or region's development (and population) is most heavily concentrated along its outer edges rather than in its interior.	
9.      Peripheral development	9.    A nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state.	
10.      Import-substitution industries	10.    The clockwise movement of water around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean.	
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