Global Practice Regents Essay

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Term Paper Title	Global Practice Regents Essay
# of Words	373
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.49

     *Global Practice Regents Essay*

     Through out history, nations and regions have experienced barriers to
development as a result of geographic factors.

          *Japan:  Japan is a mountainous region geographically isolated from the rest
of the world with a lack of raw materials. They formed a barrier for trade,
development, industrialization, and cultural diffusion. They attempted to adapt to the
barrier by turning to imperilization of China to gain raw materials.

          *Russia:  Russia has very cold climatic conditions, the Ural mountains. The
adapted to their geological barrier by using their weather to avoid being invaded by
other nations. But they were unable to mine for minerals due to permafrost and the
cold temperatures.

     *Switzerland:      Waterpower is the chief natural resource of Switzerland.
Granite, limestone, and other building stones and salt are the only abundant
mineral resources; small deposits of iron and manganese ores are found. Agricultural
resources are limited, as most of the soil is leached and stony. Neither the soil nor
the climate favors agriculture, and Switzerland must import much of the food it
consumes and subsidize the farms that do exist. Nearly all the farms are family
enterprises, and most are small in size.

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