Map skills
A system of imaginary that divides up the space on a map.
What is map grid?
1,600 miles from newfound land to Alabama, green and catskill mountains in the north, blue ridge and great smoky mountains in the south.
Where are the Appalachian Mountains?
Interprets laws and reviews lower court decisions.
What does the judicial branch do?
Spanish, Portuguese and French.
What are the 3 main languages in Latin America?
Was the genocide of European Jews during World War ll.
What was the Holocaust?
Parallel (east to west) lines that circle the Earth.
What is latitude?
3,000 miles from Alaska to New Mexico, 80 millions years old and less erosion.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Defines the fundamental law of the U.S. federal government, setting forth the three principal branches of the federal government and outlining their jurisdictions.
What is the constitution?
Native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century.
Who are the Aztecs?
Climate change, immigration, and the war between Russia and Ukraine.
What are some modern day issues?
Meridian lines that run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is longitude?
Extended from Missouri River to Rocky Mountains.
Where are the Great Plains?
People have supreme power, government acts by and with consent.
What is a democracy?
South American Indians who, at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1532, ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific Coast and Andean highlands.
Who are the Inca?
A system of government having the real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature.
What is a parliamentary government?
A map that shows a particular theme or topic.
What is a thematic map?
Makes laws.
What does the legislative branch do?
European colonization of the Americas (1492).
What is the European contact?
English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, etc...
What are the languages?
The average number of people living in a unit of area.
What is population density?
Headed by President, carries out and enforces laws.
What does the executive branch do?
Poverty, inequality and deforestation.
What are some modern day issues?
A unique economic and political union between 27 European countries.
What is the EU?