C.J. Cox

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World Regional Geography
Week 2

• C.J. Cox
• Instructor

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GEOGRAPHY

• Geo earth
• graphy to scribe, draw, or map

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• the science of location
• an integrated science that uses
  knowledge from many disciplines
• the study of spatial relationships,
  (context interconnectedness)

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Arctic Ocean
Europe
Asia
North America
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
Indian Ocean
South America
Pacific Ocean
Australia
Antarctica
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Geography and the New Global Order

• The New Global Order
• The Concept of Region
• Geographic Growth
• Basics of Geography
• Natural Environments of the World
• People World Cultures
• World Economic Political Geography
• Urban and Rural Landscapes

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New Global Order

• Old Classifications
• First World
• US, Europe, Australia
• free market economies
• Second World
• Eastern Europe
• planned and controlled economies
• Third World
• Africa, South America,
• underdeveloped poor economies

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New Global Order

• New Classifications
• Developed Regions
• US, Europe, Australia
• countries with diversification of economies
• service technologically based countries
• Developing Regions
• Africa, South Asia, Middle South America
• countries based primarily on agriculture and
  basic manufacturing industries

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Rice Farming in Vietnam
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Mazirotti Plant in Italy
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Rich Poor
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Globalization

• Much of the worlds economic activity is now
  transnational in scope
• accelerating economic, cultural and political
  interdependenceies across national borders
• Globalization underscores virtually all
  contemporary geographies

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Geography and the New Global Order

• The New Global Order
• The Concept of Region
• Geographic Growth
• Basics of Geography
• Natural Environments of the World
• People World Cultures
• World Economic Political Geography
• Urban and Rural Landscapes

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Regions - units of geographic study
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THE CONCEPT OF REGION

• Worlds within worlds
• Areas with unifying characteristics
• Regions may be large or small
• continental or local
• ie. World regions, countries, local regions
• Subregions
• regions within regions

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THE CONCEPT OF REGION

• Regions may be
• economic
• environmental
• historical
• cultural
• other ideas?

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THE CONCEPT OF REGION

• Formal Regions - clear definitive regions
• ie.city administrative region
• Functional Regions - regions that facilitate
  interaction between regions
• positive linkages conflicts
• ie. ethnic regions

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Geography and the New Global Order

• The New Global Order
• The Concept of Region
• Geographic Growth
• Basics of Geography
• Natural Environments of the World
• People World Cultures
• World Economic Political Geography
• Urban and Rural Landscapes

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GEOGRAPHIC GROWTH CHRONOLOGY

• Age of World Isolation (to 1500AD) geographic
  advances lead by Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Arabs
• Age of Discovery (1500-1650)
• Age of Exploration (1650-1900)
• Age of Specialization in geographic
  research(1900-)
• beginnings of Physical, Cultural, Economic
  Geographies
• Age of information (computerization)
• information manipulation integration

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Geography and the New Global Order

• The New Global Order
• The Concept of Region
• Geographic Growth
• Basics of Geography
• Natural Environments of the World
• People World Cultures
• World Economic Political Geography
• Urban and Rural Landscapes

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GEOGRAPHY BASICS

• Location
• Maps Globes
• Distribution
• Diffusion

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GEOGRAPHY BASICS

• Location
• where something is
• Exact Location
• latitude longitude coordinate system
• Relative Location
• where something is relative to another location
• Place Names

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Geographic Grid
Longitude
Latitude
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GEOGRAPHIC GRID

• Equator - A circle that divides the globe into
  two equal halves or hemispheres of north and
  south. Located at 0 latitude

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GEOGRAPHIC GRID

• North and South Poles - located at right angles
  or 90 from the plane of the equator.

90
0
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Latitude is the angular measurement North or
South of the Equator
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Parallels are circular lines used to indicate
latitude
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LONGITUDE - the angular measurement East or West
of England
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Meridians are arcs used to




indicate longitude
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Prime Meridian The meridian, designated as 0
E, W longitude, that passes through the Royal
Observatory at Greenwich, England.
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International Date Line An arc that follows
180 longitude E,W. When crossing the date
line, the calendar is turned forward or backward
one day, depending on direction of travel.
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Latitude is angular measurement North South
of the equator
Longitude is angular measurement East
West of England
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Geographic Grid
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World Regional Geography

• C.J. Cox
• Instructor

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WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY A New World Order
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