HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
This term refers to the process where ideas, products, and culture spread worldwide through technology and trade.
What is globalization?
This central region of North America is often called the "breadbasket" of the world.
What are the Great Plains?
This man-made waterway in Central America is crucial for shipping between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This massive South American feature is often called the "lungs of the planet".
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This category of human geography includes the languages, religions, and customs that define a group of people.
What is culture?
North America is bordered by these three oceans.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans?
This is the primary industry of the Caribbean, though it is vulnerable to hurricanes.
What is tourism?
This is the longest mountain range in the world, located along the western coast of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
Geographers study this to understand why people tend to live near water sources, fertile land, and moderate climates.
What is population distribution?
Most of the North American population lives in these large areas rather than in the countryside.
What are metropolitan areas (or cities)?
The Caribbean is this type of landform: a large chain or group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
South America is crossed by these two significant latitude lines.
What are the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn?
This main branch of geography explores how people live, interact with their environment, and organize their societies.
What is human geography?
This term describes the trend of people moving into and living in large cities.
What is urbanization?
Central America’s environment is characterized by this "axis" that provides fertile soil but also poses hazards.
What is volcanoes or volcanic axis?
This South American country is specifically noted for its economy being rich in oil resources.
Who is Venezuela?