This document defines key concepts in regional geography, including the natural and human elements that comprise a region. It discusses the natural environment and factors like climate change, weather, natural resources and hazards. It then covers aspects of human geography such as language, religion and how they influence the earth. The document also defines political geography and the main forms of government. Finally, it outlines economic geography and the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary economic sectors seen around the world.

2. NO CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION TO WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY
2 ELEMENT OF REGIONAL GEPGRAPHY
3 DEFINITION NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
• GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
• WEATHER
• NATURAL HAZARD
• NATURAL RESOURCES
4 DEFINITION HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
• LANGUAGE
• RELIGION
5 DEFINITION POLITIC GEOGRAPHIES
• TYPE OF GOVERNMENT
6 DEFINITION ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES
• TYPES OF ECONOMIC SECTOR

3. WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY?
Definition:
 In basic terms: geographers want to know where
something is, and how there location of that thing
affects/is affected by where other things are.
 Physical geography earth’s physical processes
(natural, resources, global climate and etc.)
 Human geography spatial aspects of human life
(language, cultural political, economic and etc)

4. ELEMENTS IN REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY
NATURAL
ENVIRONMENT
HUMAN
GEOGRAPHY
POLITICAL
GEOGRAPHY
ECONOMIC
GEOGRAPHY

5. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
• The natural environment encompasses all living and
non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this
case not artificial.
• The environment encompasses the:
-global climate change
-weather
-natural resources
-natural hazard

6. Global climate change
• Climate change refers to significant changes in global
temperature, precipitation, wind patterns and other
measures of climate that occur over several decades
or longer.
• Also known as Global Warming
• Caused by human activities such as:
-Burning of fossil fuels
-Deforestation

7. Weather
The state of the atmosphere at a particular place and
times as :
Regards heat
Cloudiness
Dryness
Sunshine
Wind
Rain

8. Natural Resources
• Natural resources that exist without actions of
humankind.
• This includes all valued characteristics such as:
-Magnetic
-Gravitational
-Electrical properties
-Forces
• All natural resources fall under two main categories:
-Renewable (water, animals and plants)
-Non-renewable resources (oil and mineral)

10. Natural Hazard
• Natural hazard is a natural phenomenon that might
have a negative effect on humans or the
environment.
• Examples:
-Earthquakes
-Volcanic Eruptions
-Tsunami
-Landslides

11. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
• Human geography attends to human patterns of
social interaction, as well as spatial level
interdependencies, and how they influence or effect
the earth’s environment.
• This study includele:
-languages
-Religion

12. • Languages is a system of
communication through the
use of speech, a collection of
sounds understand by a
group to have the same
meaning.
• Six most spoken languages in
the world:
- Mandarin Chinese
- Spanish
- English
- Arabic
- Portuguese
- Russian

13. • Religion is the belief in
and worship of a
superhuman controlling
power, especially a
personal God or gods.
• Top 5 religion:
 Islam
 Buddhism
 Hinduism
 Christianity
 Judaism

14. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
• Is the branch of geography the deals with the
boundaries, divisions, and possessions of states, and
the situations of cities.
• The five main forms of power are:
MONORCHY
DEMOCRACY
OLIGARCHY
AUTHORITARIANISM
TOTALITARIANISM

15. MONARCHY is a form
government in which a
single family rules form
generation to generation.
Ex: Uk
DEMOCRACY is defined as a
form of government in
which power belongs to the
people. Ex: Us
OLIGARCHY is form of
government in which all
power resides with a
few people or in a
dominant group within
the society. Ex: Soviet
Union.
AUTHORITARIANISM is
a form of government
in which people have
no participation. Ex:
Cuba
TOTALITARIANISM is a
form of government in
which one person or
political party exercise
absolute control. Ex:
North Korea.

16. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
 Is study of location, distribution and spatial
organization of economic activities across the world.
It represents a traditional subfield of the discipline of
geography.
 Types of world’s economic sector:

17. •Intellectual
activities, such as
scientific research,
education and
information
technology
•Ex: Scholars,
researchers and
librians.
• The supplying of
services to
consumers and
businesses.
• Ex: Scholars,
researchers and
librarians.
• The
transformation of
raw materials into
goods
• Ex: Seamstress,
factory worker, or
craftsman
• The extraction of
raw materials from
the earth
• Ex: Farmers, coal
miners and hunters.
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18. • NAMA: NURDAFINA BT KAMARUL ARIFFIN
• SUBJECT : REGIONAL ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT