Term
| What is the "DMZ"? Why was it created |
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Definition
| "de-militarized zone". 155 mile-wide, unguarded, uninhabited area. |
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Term
| What is remarkable about the photo of Korean peninsula at night? |
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Definition
| There are no lights in North Korea (poor nation, can't afford electricity) |
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Term
| What is population density? |
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Definition
| Usually a number of people per square km or mile |
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Term
| How does population density match with climate regions and physiographic regions? |
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Definition
| Most of the population live where it's moist and warm with lots of water access for trade |
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Term
North Korea's famine of 1995:
Name 2 of the causes |
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Definition
- Sucessive waves of drought and flood
- loss of Soviet Union support
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Term
what is a "chaebol"?
examples of chaebols |
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Definition
Gov't nurtured small companies into giant conglomerates. Done in S. Korea
examples: Samsung, Hundai |
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Term
Which country, North Korea or South Korea:
has the highest GDP?
is more densely populated?
has more abundant natural resources?
spend a greater percentage of their GDP on the military?
has a capitalist economy?
is the US's 5th largest trading partner? |
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Definition
North Korea:
more abundant natural resources
spends greater % of GDP on military
South Korea:
higher GDP
larger population density
capitalist economy
US's 5th largest trading partner |
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Term
| "domino theory" (not the political theory, but the economic one) |
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Definition
| if a company's trading partner falls, that company will eventually fall |
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Term
| a closed economy with a goal of self-reliance |
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Definition
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Term
| sunshine policy- what is it? |
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Definition
a warming between North and South Korea, started in 2000
flares and dies down over time |
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Term
| why are powerful nations supporting reconciliation not reunification for North and South Korea? |
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Definition
Reunification would be very expensive for South Korea.
Reunification would be geopolitically challenging. Involves the supporting powers of each country (US, Japan, Taiwan vs. China, Russia)
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Term
| Describe why it is that rare wildlife can be found in the DMZ. Name at least 2 species. |
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Definition
there is no human prescence
species:
nesting red-crowned and white-naped cranes
black-faced spoonbills
asiatic black bears
amur leopards (world's rares big cat) |
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Term
Geographical Imagination: the way people imagine and render spaces and places.
what does this mean? |
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Definition
| the imaginations of a geographical place that are provoked by certain ideas |
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Term
| Why was Tibet known as "the Roof of the World"? |
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Definition
because it sits above everything else.
*It's known as the "altar of the world" because, not only is it physically elevated, like an altar, but it has so much religious and spiritual importance |
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Term
Chinese tactics to overtake Tibetan culture and territory: know specific strageties under each heading)
- military
- cultural destruction
- changed geographic borders
- changed demographics
- law
- envioronmental change
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Definition
military
- invaded with military force
- destroyed 6000 monasteries, nunneries, and cultural institutions
cultural destruction
destruction of monasteries (which are culturally very significant-- places of worship, act as community centers and schools at the same time)
changed geographic borders
parts of original Tibet have been incorperated into other Chinese provinces, leaving a smaller autonomous region of Tibet
changed demographics
- population transfer
- birth control policy
law
- there's a curfew
- Tibetan flag can't be waved
- can't have pictures of the Dalai Lama
- can't protest the Chinese government
environmental change
- desertification
- deforestation
- dam construction
- endangered species
- nuclear waste
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Term
| Chinese view of the changes they have made in Tibet (their point of view) |
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Definition
| Chinese have "liberated" Tibetans from a repressive religion, poverty, and "backwardness" |
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Term
| Where is Tibet's government in exile located today? |
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Definition
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Term
| examples of Tibetan Communities around the world |
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Definition
Tibetan community of Australia
Tibetan community of Ireland |
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Term
| example of fusion of cultural forms |
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Definition
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Term
| Which region of the world has the highest rate of deforestation? |
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Definition
| ITCZ (along land near equator) |
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Term
What were the main reasons for deforestation:
in the 1800s:
after WW2: |
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Definition
1800s:
exports in rice production
exports of tropical hardwoods
After WW2:
use of teak for furniture production
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Term
| Flows of wood go from where to where? |
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Definition
| Go from Southeast Asia to North America, Asia, Europe |
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Term
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Definition
| cookie products (Keebler, Oreo, Mrs. Fields, Pepperidge Farm) |
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Term
| problems associated with palm oil: |
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Definition
to create palm oil plantation, forests are clear cut
destroys tree crops of indigenous peoples (fruit, rubber)
sustainably grown palm oil regulations are not certified, but corperations are getting the sustainable productions
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Term
| understand what Greenpeace has done in this specific case, using ship Esperanza |
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Definition
paint the boat
website reporting
draw attention to upcoming Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meetings
Stop the Works!: climb-the-anchor chain of cargo ships
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Term
| what is the goal of the "ecology monks" |
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Definition
| they want to help local people solve social and environmental problems |
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Term
| How can South Asia have so much poverty with the high percentage of arable land available? |
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Definition
high adult illiteracy rates
high % of total population without access to safe water
high % of population without access to sanitation |
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Term
| reasons for migration to cities in South Asia |
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Definition
- higher salaries
- business opportunities
- anonymity and indiviualism
- rise in caste status
- agricutural modernization (reduces rural incomes and jobs)
- population pressures
- refugees of drought or flooding
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Term
| by 2020, India's population is expected to exceed that of __________ |
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Definition
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Term
| Kashmir's 5 regions: which are Indian and which are Pakistani? |
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Definition
3 are Indian
2 are Pakistani |
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Term
| What does "Bollywood" refer to? |
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Definition
the film industry of India:
combination of "Bombay" and "Hollywood" |
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Term
| when was the Hindi Film industry's "Golden Age"? |
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Definition
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Term
| Dr. Bose described the "Masala" (spice) category of films that began to be popular in the 1960s and 1970s. What kinds of movies were these? |
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Definition
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Term
| What happened to the film industry in India in the early 1990s and why (be sure to talk about the Soviet Union, and the "closed" versus "open" economy of India.) |
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Definition
| After things started to be restructured, the movie culture was changed. An influx of western movies created big impact on Bollywood, but the industry still survived |
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Term
| What kind of foreign influences are impacting Bollywood films? |
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Definition
| western music world (MTV) |
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Term
| What is a "playback singer"? |
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Definition
| a singer who's voice is lip-synched into a movie. actors don't do their own singing |
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Term
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Definition
representations of some aspect of the world
- temp/alt. zones
- personal maps
- cartograms
- choropleths
- oil flow/timber flow
- proportional symbol map
- olympic medal map
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Term
| name some of the physical geography processes we studied |
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Definition
- deforestation of Africa
- Galapagos islands
- formation of atolls
- Ring of fire
- rain shadows
- roaring 40s
- man-made features ("The World" project, Dubai)
- plate tectonics
- gulf stream
- volcanoes
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Term
| examples of globalization |
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Definition
- increasing speed/slope/scale of global interconnectedness
- global networks (Emmanuel's Gift)
- symbols (McDonalds, Bono, GE, etc.)
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Term
colonialism and neocolonialism (examples)
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Definition
Political/legal domination
- Berlin Conference
- Apartheid in South Africa
- Triangular Slave Trade
- spread of religion, culture, economics, sports, etc.
- rugby in Oceania
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Term
| examples of sense of place and identity |
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Definition
- kids in VT
- Muslim gender
- loss of identity as a result colonization
- Radio Bikini
- Bad Sugar
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Term
| examples of social well-being |
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Definition
- HDI
- GDP
- literacy indicators
- health and diet indicators
- life expectancy
- infant mortality rates
- Gross Happiness Index
- gender equity
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Term
| examples of development and sustainability |
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Definition
- agriculture (slash and burn)
- SE Asia and Haiti deforestation
- massive development
- palm oil
- fossil fuels
- irrenewable energy
- "carrying capacity"
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Term
| examples of landscape change |
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Definition
- Haiti
- development of Dubai
- Aral Sea
- Chernobyl
- deforestation in SE Asia
- Bikini Island
- Sakhalin
- invasive spceies (Rabbits in Australia)
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Term
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Definition
- Tibet
- Kashmir
- N Korea vs. S Korea
- OPEC
- Berlin Conference
- USSR
- UN (grew out of WWII)
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