Location
The absolute location of Berlin.
52o N, 13oE
A form of communication, written or spoken.
What is language?
Italy, Spain, Ireland, and France are all predominantly Catholic (Christian) countries. They form this type of region.
What is a cultural region?
When studying global economies, larger countries tend to have higher __________. Smaller countries tend to have higher ______________.
What is GDP, then GDP per capita?
This war prompted leaders of different countries to form organizations that would (hopefully) promote global peace and security.
What is World War II?
The majority of Europe is in these two hemispheres.
What is northern and eastern?
Weather is the daily conditions of the atmosphere. This term refers to the conditions of the atmosphere over time.
What is climate?
Eastern Europe is a cultural region as well as a physical region based on this physical feature.
What is climate? Eastern Europe has a continental cool summer climate according to our atlas.
The study of how a society decides, creates, and distributes its goods and services.
What is economics, or economic systems?
These three allies controlled West Germany and West Berlin.
What is the UK, the USA, and France.
While the theme of place describes the physical and cultural features, the theme of location describes....?
What is where a place is on earth?
A term describing height above sea level.
What is elevation?
The Eurostar train runs from London to Paris. It travels through the longest continuous underwater tunnel in the world, called the Channel Tunnel, under the English Channel. This is an example of human ____________ of the environment.
What is modification?
European languages are the official languages of many countries in Africa because of this practice. This practice is also why English is the official language of the United States.
What is colonialism or colonization?
Capitalism is to a market economy as communism is to this economic system.
What is a command economy?
The relative location of Sweden.
What is east of Norway and west of Finland?
Describe the people of a place, past and present.
What is human/cultural features?
Potatoes thrive in cool, damp climates. They became a staple of Irish diets. This is an example of human _____ to the environment.
What is adaptation?
There is significant migration from Africa and Eastern Europe to Western Europe because...
What is a stronger economy, or better job opportunities?
The physical boundary separating East and West Berlin; the physical and cultural boundary separating Eastern and Western Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain?
When giving the absolute location, this coordinate comes first.
What is latitude?
Buildings and other human-made features are ___________ characteristics.
What is cultural?
When studying human-environment interaction, it's often easier to look at pre-industrial time periods or Indigenous cultures. Why?
Possible answers: Technology and globalization have made it possible for people to live similarly in many different countries. Before this time period, people's lives were heavily influenced by the natural environment.
The United States has the largest GDP in the world. Why might that be? List three reasons.
Possible answers - huge amount of land, lots of workers, lots of natural resources, different climates for different crops, good infrastructure, market economy
Possible answers:
- Lack of trust between USA and Russia
- Division of North & South Korea
- Slower economic recovery of former Eastern Bloc countries; wealthier Western European countries