GEOG 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Exclusive Economic Zone, Four Corners Monument, Offshore Drilling
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Geog 5 notes: location: affects climate, resources, accessibility to other countries (trade & interaction, land-block states: no access to an ocean (20% of world"s states)- can have sea or body of water but ocean specifically (ex: africa) Un recognize them as economic handicap bc easier to ship things over water than land. Mongolia, switzerland, paraguay: boundaries: line separating one political unit (administrative region) from another. Can be obvious but constantly changing: geometric boundaries: imaginary lines (longitude & latitude) drawn on the land to designate territories. Ex: four corners- monument in middle of desert between utah, colorado, new. Mx and az: cultural landscape: geographic area, including both cultural & natural resources (i. e. wildlife or domestic animals) associated with a historic event, activity, person or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values (ex: great wall; pyramids) Visible imprint of human activity on earth"s surface- evidence that people were in a given location.
