Significant Terms
Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region.
What are the 5 Themes of Geography?
An account of an event written by someone who did not witness it.
The distance of a place north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees.
What is latitude?
Principles against which actions are determined to be right or wrong.
What is ethics?
The process of coming to live in another country.
What is immigration?
A right that cannot be taken away.
What is an unalienable right?
An unreasoned emotional judgement about people or events.
What is bias?
The line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around Earth.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A person that organizes and operates a business.
What is an entrepreneur?
The way of life people who share similar beliefs and customs.
What is culture?
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Original material from the time period being studied.
What is a primary source?
An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
What is the Equator?
A basic right to which all humans are entitled.
What is a natural right?
To present someone else's ideas or words as your own.
What is plagiarism?
1620 document that was the first plan for self-government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The order of events.
What is a chronology?
The distance of a place east or west of the Prime Meridian, measured in degrees.
What is longitude?
Category of society that shares a language, history, religion, and some physical traits.
What is an ethnic group?
The process of learning or finding something new.
What is discovery?
English charter that limited the power of the monarchy, no new taxes unless a common counsel agrees, and said that all free men have the right to justice and a fair trial with a jury.
What is the Magna Carta?
A particular attitude about someone or something.
What is point of view?
The study of how individuals make choices about ways to use scarce resources to meet their needs.
What is economics?
Something that is assumed based on what appears to be true.
What is an inference?
Something that improves upon or makes a significant contribution to an existing product, process, or service.
What is innovation?