GPERSIA and MRHELP
What are the two types of place?
Physical and Human
What are the three basic economic questions?
What to produce?
How to produce?
For whom to produce?
What are some basic functions of government?
Protect people, make laws, collect taxes
What type of population pyramid has a skinny top and a big base?
Increasing/Growing
In a Mercator map, are the lines of latitude and longitude straight or curvy?
straight
What are the two types of location?
Relative and Absolute Location
Which economic system is based on government control and regulations?
Command
What does it mean to vote?
to formally express a choice or an opinion as part of a collective decision-making process
What is a scarce resource?
A scarce resource is limited or finite. There is a set amount of the resource.
What is distortion?
The errors caused when applying a map projection
What does political mean?
Form and function of the government
Also includes personal beliefs about government (Politics)
What is a economic system?
the way in which a country produces and distributes goods, services, and resources
What type of government means that one leader holds complete power?
Autocracy
What is a cause of population growth?
vaccines/modern medicine
-Industrial Revolution
-more accessible food
-more accessible clean water
-less deaths/falling death rate
-people living longer
Why do people use globes?
Globes are best for representing size relationships for continents, countries, and oceans if you don’t need a flat map.
Which letter/word in GPERSIA is the study of physical features in the world and locations
G/Geography
What does a producer do?
creates economic value, or produces goods and services
What is Citizen Participation?
the process by which people exercise their right to influence government
What is a negative effect on population growth?
-overcrowding
-not enough jobs
-spread of diseases
-not enough housing
-increase in pollution
-increase in poverty & crime
-destruction of animal habitats
-not enough resources (food, water
What do the lines of longitude look like on a Robinson map?
Lines of longitude are not parallel, and they do not meet at the poles.
What is an example of Human-Environment Interaction?
*pollution: littering, dumping
waste, etc.
*overusing resources
*picking up litter
*replanting forests
*pesticides
*natural disasters:
hurricanes, earthquakes,
tornadoes, droughts
*pollen = allergies
*daily weather
*insect bites
What is how much of a good or service consumers want and are able to buy at a certain price?
Demand
What type of government that shows to “Rule by the few,” and has a small group in charge?
Oligarchy
What is a stationary population?
A pyramid with a somewhat equal proportion of the population in each group-not increasing or decreasing
on a Mollweide map, are the lines of longitude straight or curved?
Curved