Six Essential Elements
This element of geography has to do with how humans interact with the environment
What is Environment & Society?
These divide the Earth into "half spheres"
What are hemispheres?
This term means "lack of a resource"
What is scarcity?
Many of the key ideas of America's government came from these ancient civilizations
What are ancient Greece and Rome?
These are the two parts of the U.S. Congress
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
This element of geography has to do with how hurricanes, volcanoes, and glaciers shape the Earth's surface
What are Physical Systems?
These types of maps show the Earth on a flat sheet of paper
What are projection maps?
The terms for goods shipped into and out of a country
What are Imports and Exports?
This concept was created so that no one branch of government could become too powerful
What is Separation of Powers?
This term refers to something that you give up to make or buy a certain good or service
What is Opportunity Cost?
This element of geography has to do with the location of a place
What is The World in Spatial Terms?
These lines allow us to find the absolute location of a place
What are latitude and longitude?
The relationship between the amount of a good/service the producer wants to sell and the amount of something that a consumer wants to buy
What is Supply & Demand?
Name the three branches of government
What are judicial, executive, and legislative?
Give two examples of countries that have a Command Economy
What are Cuba & North Korea?
This element of geography has to do with the physical characteristics of a place, such as landforms, climate and plant/animal life
What is Places and Regions?
These types of maps show and name borders of countries
What are political maps?
In this type of an economy, a central government decides what goods will be made and who will receive them
What is a Command Economy?
Things like paying one's taxes and following laws are examples of ________________
What is fulfilling one's civic duty/responsibility?
This term means "the set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by the members of a group."
What is Culture?
These two elements of geography have to do with how humans have shaped our world and the mastering of tools and technology to study geography
What are Human Systems and the Uses of Geography?
Name the five themes of geography
What are: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions?
Name the four major kinds of resources
What are land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship?
This document represents the highest law in the United States
What is the Constitution?
Name two of the four different types of projection maps
What are: Goode's Interrupted Equal-Area Projection, Mercator Projection, Robinson Projection, and Winkel Tripel Projection?