Weather Mechanics
The weight of gases in the atmosphere pressing down on a surface area.
What is atmospheric pressure?
The term describing the average weather conditions in an area over an extended length of time.
What is climate?
The study of human populations and their characteristics.
What is demography?
The economic system allowing private individuals to own factors of production and make economic decisions.
What is capitalism?
The condition that exists when no form of governing authority exists and people do whatever they want.
What is anarchy?
The process where water vapor loses thermal energy as it cools and changes back into liquid droplets in clouds.
What is condensation?
Any large region where distinct populations of plants and animals are found living together.
What is a biome?
The average number of people who live on each square mile or kilometer of land.
What is population density?
The system where the government owns major industries and promises to make production decisions for the welfare of society.
What is socialism?
A form of single-rule government where the ruler acquires authority by birthright.
What is a monarchy?
The type of precipitation that occurs when a warm, humid air mass is forced upward over a mountainous area.
What is orographic precipitation?
The dry, arid area located on the leeward side of a mountain range.
What is a rain shadow?
The statistic representing the average number of children being born per couple in a society.
What is the fertility rate?
An economy that attempts to combine elements of both capitalism and socialism.
What is a mixed economy?
An extreme form of government exercising complete control over almost every detail of citizens' lives.
What is a totalitarian government?
The instrument used by meteorologists to measure atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
The prevailing winds in the middle latitudes that bring warm air from the tropics toward lands farther north.
What are the Westerlies?
The calculation determined by dividing total population by the amount of arable land.
What is physiological density?
The type of economic system where the government completely determines which industries are developed, built, and produced.
What is a command economy?
The theory describing the range of ideas tolerated by the public and explaining how policy ideas shift into acceptability over time.
What is the Overton Window?
The phenomenon that causes wind direction to curve due to the earth's rapid rotation beneath moving air.
What is the Coriolis effect?
A graph displaying a location's average monthly temperature (line graph) and average monthly precipitation (bar graph).
What is a climograph?
The number of children born per one thousand people in a population in a single year.
What is the crude birthrate?
People who take risks to start businesses.
Entrepreneurs
A type of culture where communication relies heavily on nonverbal cues, body language, and status rather than explicit words.
What is a high-context culture?