North America
Wanderers who follow the food to survive
What is a nomad?
The ancient technique of growing crops on a mountain slope
What is terrace farming?
Study of the earth's natural features
What is physical geography?
The origin of ideas, technology, and other aspects of culture
What is a cultural hearth?
Government by the people and for the people
What is democracy?
Empties out into the gulf of mexico
What is the Mississippi River?
The kind of plantations in Brazil during the colonial era
What is sugarcane?
Areas around this ocean are considered to be the Ring of Fire
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Belief in divine forces of nature
What is animism?
DAILY DOUBLE:
The government makes all decisions, including decisions about the media
What is totalitarian?
Prevents many from settling in cities in the west
What is the Rocky Mountains?
Spanish Conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
Who is Hernan Cortes?
An archaeologist mapping the fossils he has found in the Sahara Desert using a GPS
What is absolute location?
war, drought, famine, poverty, crime
What is push factors?
The production of goods is determined by supply and demand
What is a free enterprise/market economy?
Deal with France that doubled the size of the U.S.
Louisiana Purchase
Peoples used to replace the diseased native Brazilians on sugarcane plantations
What is African Slaves?
States in the great plains area of the country are considered to be the "Corn Belt". This is an example of
What is region?
A nation with the majority of the population under the age of 10 would need...
What is Schools and Daycare?
Economy centered around manufacturing goods
What is the secondary level of economics?
The main cause of urbanization
What is industrialization?
DAILY DOUBLE:
Catholic country with a heavy population on the coast, that holds the national Carnivale festival
Brazil
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas of land, normally surrounded on either side by a sea
What is an isthmus?
A nation with a good amount of the population over the age of 90 probably has a lot of people working in this career field
What is Doctors, Nurses, Medical Care?
Government divided between central and national sectors
What is a federal system?