Vocab/physical features
Maps and Tools
Climate/Veg Zones
Economics
Political/cultural geo
100
The physical feature shown
What is a strait?
100
A map that tells or shows how its people make a living
What is an economic activity map?
100
Vegetation Zone that has both coniferous and deciduous trees.
What is a mixed forest?
100
The three basic economic questions every society must answer.
What to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce?
100
A government where one person rules by force, often using the military.
What is an autocracy (or dictatorship)?
200
A map that shows information about one topic, such as climate.
What is a thematic map?
200
Three examples of natural resources
What are wood, water, wind, coal, iron, uranium, oil, etc
200
Evergreen trees with needles and cones like Christmas trees that stay green all year long.
What are coniferous trees?
200
two pros of a traditional economy
everyone knows which role to play; little uncertainty, sharing and caring for others
200
Belief in one God.
Holy book = Torah.
Important traditions: Sabbath, Passover.
One of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions.
What is Judaism?
300
A globe avoids this problem that all flat maps have.
What is distortion?
300
The problem with this map projection
What is the Mercator Projection shows direction well but distorts land near the poles
300
The months it is most likely to snow in Chicago
What are December, January, February?
300
The type of economy that blends free market with some government control.
What is a mixed economy?
300
The three branches of government
What are Legislative, Executive, Judicial?
400
the physical feature shown
What is an isthmus?
400
The way to detirmine the population density of an area
What is dividing the total number of people living there by the total land area?
400
An extremely cold, dry area with short, cool summers and bitterly cold winters (like Northern Canada) and short grasses and shrubs adapted to cold weather.
What is the tundra?
400
After several years of poor harvests, food prices increased significantly. Farmers responded by planting more crops that consumers were willing to pay higher prices for, eventually increasing supply and lowering prices.
What is a market economy?
400
Name the three largest world religions by total number of followers.
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism
500
Any action that relates to the making, buying, and selling of goods and services
What is economic activity
500
The Lat/long of New Delhi
What is 28 N 77 E?
500
The Climate Zone the country Myanmar (Burma) is located in
What is tropical wet and dry?
500
A country's government provides public education and builds highways, but private businesses determine what goods to produce, how much to charge, and whom to hire.
What is a mixed economic system?
500
give a pro and con of a democracy and give one pro and con of an autocracy
Democracy
- Pro: People can vote for their leaders.
- Con: Government decisions may take longer to make.
Autocracy
- Pro: Decisions can be made quickly.
- Con: Citizens have little influence over the government.