Geography 101

[Hitchhiker]

"Tanks?" Maybe we need a Typing 101 thread.

*claims page 2*

[Quiller]

Interesting map from Crysty's site... That they could not fit in countries like Liechtenstein is reasonable, but Malta? Cyprus?? And Russia has been defined as Asia now "Your child learns"... good grief.

[Quiller]

* joins amb's "I hate the smilie" club *

[CrystyB]

cyprus is in the Middle East - that's got a higher resolution (and fwiw Malta is *very* small too. The idea is that kids are to learn the basic countries. The small ones will come later.). And Russia is a special case, the only transcontinental country i know and i guess noone can not know where Russia is!

[This message has been edited by CrystyB (edited 02-09-2003 12:03 AM).]

[Beartalon]

Egypt, Turkey and Russia are all transcontinental.

[xer0x]

100%, 100% & 100% respectively. Multiple choice makes it easy. Bah.

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The c0pied, against all definition, transcends the c0pier. Je pense donc je suis.

[jesternl]

100% on each quiz, but without the multiple choice answers I wouldn't have gotten that high I'm sure

[VinnyQ]

here's a good link to one of my college course. I loved the proffesor teaching it, he funny.

http://www.majbill.vt.edu/geog/geog1014/TOPICS/Topic.htm

Not extensive, but may be a good read for some of you.

[VinnyQ]

Why is Geography important?

Excerpt from Profesor Boyer's note:

Originally posted by Proffessor Boyer @ Virginia Tech:

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Age of Globalization

Globalization: what is it and what does it mean to me? Economically? Technologically? Politically? Socially? Morally?
We constantly hear about how the world is getting smaller--is it? No, the world is becoming more connected. More information is flowing faster than ever before. For the first time EVER any of us could travel to ANY part of the world virtually overnight. We can communicate in REAL TIME with any part of the globe.

We are the first generation of humans, in all human history to enjoy foreign travel as a casual part of life, to communicate by direct-dialing with any country on all continents, to receive instant news of world happenings, to be expected to work overseas or work for a company that deals overseas: EXPECTED, NOT THE EXCEPTION. This is a really important concept, especially to you--the first generation that is living in the post-industrial, high technology, interconnected age.

Many if not all of you will work for multinational companies whose business is all over the world. Many if not all of you will work and live outside of the US at some point in your careers. People who understand and can interpret the world around them are much more versatile and therefore quickly become NON-EXPENDABLE. Businesses and jobs are internationalizing as we speak—almost all jobs, not just the fancy ones. You guys are the people that are going to be running the world. You guys are the decision makers--when all is said and done I'm just a dude teaching here at Virginia Tech. But YOU all will be the ones building the bridges, and electing leaders, and stabilizing governments, and controlling monetary exchange rates, or setting up all sorts of private or national or even international businesses/programs/projects that will shape the world and all the people on it.

Make no mistake about it, the AIDS rate in Africa DOES affect you, the increasing coal consumption in China DOES affect you, an earthquake in Japan, and the price of cocaine leaves in Colombia DOES affect you. (allocation of your tax dollars, your jobs, the price you pay for goods, the amount of goods we sell, etc.) Globalization is pretty much a one-way street. We are not going back to medieval times, no matter what isolationist say, do, or think. Ignore the rest of the world at your own peril—you wont be hurting anyone but yourself.

Knowledge is power, or at least empowerment. The more you know about the world in which we live, the more power you have.

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[Lepton]

Idea stolen from DPR a while ago. Bonus points if you know who that is.

Name every country you can think of in the UN

[VivianQ]

United States

... um ...
... er ...
... ah ...

bah. who gives a rat ass?

[Dragon Phoenix]