Location
Government
Government X 2
Vocabulary
This and That
100
An exact postion on the earths surface.
What is Absolute location?
100
An inhabitant of a particular town or city or country.
What is a citizen?
100
All of the River Valley Civilizations had a monarchy. Name the term used for the ruler of each: Mesopotamia- Egypt- China- Indus River Valley-
King Pharaoh Emperor Maharaja
100
The characteristic features of everyday life shared by people in a particular place or time, the things we eat, the music we listen to, the clothes we wear.
What is our Culture?
100
A large contiguous landmass that is at least partially surrounded by water.
What is a continent?
200
These are used for geographic orientation, usually N,E,S,W! (Never, Eat, Soggy Waffles)
What are Cardinal Directions?
200
This is a government in which the power is held by the people and used by them directly or indirectly through representation.
What is a Democracy?
200
The economic system associated with a Representative Democratic government like the U.S. has.
What is Market Economy?
200
Consequences of an action that were not planned for.
What are unintended consequences?
200
The 5 oceans are.
What is Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Artic and sometimes the Southern Oceans?
300
Most of the world's population is located within 300 miles of this?
What is a water source?
300
The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws for a country, land area, people, or organization.
What is A Government?
300
The plan of government of the United States is known as the _____________________.
What is the constitution?
300
Waterfalls caused by large rocks in a river. (Think of the Nile)
What is a cateract?
300
To move from one country, place, or locality to another
What is Migration?
400
A positon decribed solely with reference to another location.
What is Relative Location?
400
A government in which citizens have few rights and/or freedoms. The leader takes over by force
What is a Dictatorship government?
400
The economic system associated with a Communist/Dictatorship government.
What is Command Economy?
400
The average number of people per square mile.
What is population density
400
The two lines that divide our world into the northern and southern hemispheres and the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is The Equator and the Prime Meridian?
500
A triangular shaped area at the mouth of a river where fertile soil is deposited. The Egyptian civilization settled near this.
What is a delta?
500
A goverment ruled by a king or queen. Citizens have some rights/freedoms, based on the wishes of the ruler.
What is Monarchy ?
500
These are the rights we are born with.
What is our Unalienable Rights, the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
500
"Gifts of nature"- air, land, water, forests, wildlife, topsoil, and minerals - the sum of a country's resources which include its people, natural elements,or products which can be sold, traded or used by the country in question or by other countries
What are Natural Resources?
500
The seven Continents are.
What is North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa Australia, Antarctica.
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