Places of the World, Place-Name Workbook, Map-Pak for Salter/Hobbs’ Essentials of World Regional Geography, 5th

by Hobbs, Joseph J.; Salter, Christopher L.

• ISBN13: 9780534466183
• ISBN10: 0534466184
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780495391012
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-23
• Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Summary

Places of the World is the only place-name geography book on the market that systematically identifies, maps, and describes each and every one of the world's 193 independent countries. With an organization that parallels Hobbs and Salter's text, this unique workbook provides students with organized practice for matching the names of places with their physical location on a map. The new Fifth Edition is thoroughly updated and includes more than 300 maps--200 new. A consistent framework, summarized by the acronym PLACES (Population, Language, Area, Capital, Economy, and Sovereignty), is used throughout.

Table of Contents

Perspectives and Issues in World Regional Geography

Engaging the Many Meanings of Geography

Geography for Life

Finding and Making Order in Earth Patterns

Worlds Within Worlds

Physical Systems and the Forces of Nature

Human Systems and Landscape Transformation

Human-Environment Interaction

Putting Geography to Use in Understanding Our World

Taking Geography to the Street: Careers in Geography

Definitions and Insights: Spatial Analysis

Landscape in Literature: A Map in Your Hand

Definitions and Insights: The Regional Concept

Physical and Human Processes that Shape World Regions

Patterns of Climate and Vegetation

Biodiversity

Global Environmental Change

Two Revolutions That Have Shaped Regions

The Geography of Development

Population Geography

Where to from Here? Global Perspective: Globalization: The Process and the Backlash

Definitions and Insights: The Fuelwood Crisis

Definitions and Insights: The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Definitions and Insights: Lifeboat Ethics

Europe

A Geographic Profile of Europe

Area and Population

Physical Geography and Human Adaptations

Cultural and Historical Context

Economic Geography

Geopolitical Issues

Definitions and Insights: Western Civilization

Regional Perspective: Regional Migration Patterns: Legal and Illegal

Definitions and Insights: Local Markets, Long-Distance Trade

Perspectives from the Field: Uncharted Urban Exploration

Definition and Insights: The Politics of River Management

Europe''s Dynamic Coreland

The Geographic Foundation Blocks of European Global Influence

Tensions of Past and Present in the United Kingdom

Ireland: Technology as Change Agent in National Prosperity

The Many Worlds of France

The Dominant Importance of Germany

Benelux: Trade Networks as the Key to Prosperity

Switzerland and Austria

Definitions and Insights: Enclosure

Regional Perspective: Urban Location Dynamics: The Geography of Shifting Factors of Economic Success

Landscape in Literature: The Walking Drum

Problem Landscape: The European Union and the Horror of Mad Cow Disease

Regional Perspective: The Geography of Discontent

Definitions and Insights: The Polder and the Cultural Landscape

Europe Northern, Southern, Eastern

Northern Europe: Prosperous, Isolated, and Distinct

Southern Europe: The Mediterranean World

Eastern Europe: Struggles for Economic and Political Transformation

Definitions and Insights: Hydroelectricity

Landscape in Literature: The Cloud Sketcher

Definitions and Insights: Irrigation

Definitions and Insights: Shatter Belt

Problem Landscape: "Bosnia, Sort Of"

Russia and the Near Abroad

A Geographic Profile of Russia and the Near Abroad

Area and Population

Physical Geography and Human Adaptations

Cultural and Historical Context

Economic Geography

Geopolitical Issues

Regional Perspective: Areal Names of Russia and the Near Abroad

Definitions and Insights: The Russian Cross

Perspectives from the Field: Into the Russian Arctic

Definitions and Insights: The USSR and Other Land Empires

Definitions and Insights: Barter

Fragmentation and Redevelopment in Russia and the Near Abroad

Peoples and Nations of the Fertile Triangle

Agriculture in the Russian Coreland

The Industrial Potential of the Russian Coreland

The Russian Far East

The Northern Lands of Russia

The Future of the Russian Federation

The Caucasus

The Central Asian Countries

Regional Perspective: The Sex Trade

Landscape in Literature: Spring Comes to the Urals

Problem Landscape: Nuclear Waste Simmers in Russia''s High Arctic

Regional Perspective: Oil in the Caspian Basin

The Middle East

A Geographic Profile of the Middle East and North Africa

Area and Population

Physical Geography and Human Adaptations

Cultural and Historical Context

Economic Geography

Geopolitical Issues

Perspectives from the Field: Wayfinding in the Desert

Definitions and Insights: Shi''ite and Sunni Muslims

Regional Perspective: Islamic Fundament

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