REGIONAL

1. NAME: NURHAZIRAH BT MOHD
KHAIR
MATRIX NUMBER: 11DPI17F1027
LECT NAME: MOHD NORULHISYAM
BIN HASSAN

2. NO. CONTENT
1. INTRODUCTION TO WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY.
2. ELEMENTS OF REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY.
3. DEFINITION NATURAL ENVIRONMENT:
-Global Climate Change
-Weather
-Natural Hazard
-Natural Resources
4. DEFINITION HUMAN GEOGRAPHIES:
-Language
-Religion
5. DEFINITION POLITIC GEOGRAPHIES:
-Type of government
6. DEFINITION ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES:
-Type of economic sectors

3. INTRODUCTION TO WORLD REGIONAL
GEOGRAPHY
 Study about geography
 Evolution of geography
 Contributions of the Greeks/Romans
 geo (the earth) graphos (to write about/describe)
 Herodotus-”Father of Geography” who explained the
physical and human geography of his day
 Aristotle- explained processes of the earth, influence of
temperature, wind, soils and vulcanism
 Eratosthenes- measured circumference of the earth
from angle of the sun at two points
 Construction of earth grids- longitude and latitude

4. • Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah provides an
account of the influence of man’ physical
environment on social and political
institutions
• observations are model of scientific research
on history and geography
• traveled extensively throughout North Africa
and Middle East
• importance of cities and urbanization on the
level of civilization

5. ELEMENT
OF
REGIONAL
GEOGRAPHY
NATURAL
ENVIRONMENT
HUMAN
GEOGRAPHIES
POLITICAL
GEOGRAPHIES
ECONOMIC
GEOGRAPHIES

6. DEFINITION NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Natural environment means all living and non-
living things occuring natural.
Not because of human.
Examples:
-Global climate change
-Weather
-Natural Hazard
-Natural resources

7. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE:
 Climate change refers to temperatures have
been going up around the world for many
decades.
 Also known as GLOBAL WARMING
 Causes:
-Greenhouse effect
-Deforestation

9. WEATHER:
 Describe the atmospheric condition at a place
over a short duration of time.
 Examples:
-Humidity
-Pressure
-Temperature
-Wind

10. NATURAL HAZARD:
o A natural disaster (physical event)
-Volcanic eruption
-Earthquake
-Landslide
o Human activity:
-Ex : coastal settlement of population.

11. NATURAL RESOURCES:
Natural resources are materials and
components that can be found within the
environment.
Natural resources offer useful benefits helping
meet basic human need such as:
-Food
-Water
-Clothing
-Shelter
-Air

12. DEFINITION HUMAN GEOGRAPHIES
 Relate to the spaces and places where they
originate and then travel as people continually
move across various areas.
 This study includes:
-Language
-Religion

13. LANGUAGE:
 A system of conventional spoken, manual,or
written symbols by means of which human
beings, as members of a social group and
participants in its culture, express themselves.
 Examples:
-Malay
-English
-Mandarin chinese
-Indian

14. RELIGION:
 Any specific system of belief, worship, or
conduct that prescribes certain responses to
the existence(or non-existence) and character
of God.
Examples:
-Islam
-Buddha
-Christianity
-Hinduism

15. DEFINITION POLITIC GEOGRAPHIES
 Concerned with the study of both the spatially
uneven outcomes of political processes are
themselves affected by spatial structures.
The five main forms of power are:
-Monarchy
-Democracy
-Oligarchy
-Authoritarianism
-Totalitarianism

16. MONARCHY: is a form of
government in which a single family
rules from generation to generation.
Ex: UK
DEMOCRACY: is defined as a form of
government in which power belongs
to the people. Ex: US
OLIGARCHY: is a 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
exercises absolute control.
Ex: NORTH KOREA

17. DEFINITION ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES:
 The study of the geographical distribution of
economic resources and their use.
 Types of economic sector:
-Primarily sector
-Secondary sector
-Tertiary sector
-Quaternary sector

18. • involves the supplying
of services to
consumers and
businesses such as
baby-sitting, cinema
and banking.
• related to human
services and
hospitality.
• involves the
transformation of raw or
intermediate materials
into goods such as
manufacturing steel into
cars, or textiles into
clothing.
• involves the retrieval
and production of
raw materials such as
corn, coal, wood and
iron
PRIMARILY SECONDARY
TERTIARYQUATERNARY