Types Of Government
Power is held by the people.
What is a Democracy?
The largest rain forest in the world, located in South America (Brazil).
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is Urbanization?
Distance north or south of the equator.
What is Latitude?
The use of violence by groups against civilians to achieve a political goal.
What is terrorism?
A government ruled by a king or queen.
What is a Monarchy?
A long river in northern South America.
What is the Amazon River?
An organized way Societies decide what to make, how to make it and who gets it.
What is an Economy.
Distance east or west of the prime meridian, runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is Longitude?
The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies (Rules and laws).
What is Government?
A form of government in which the people elect representatives to govern them and make laws.
What is a Republic?
A person who speaks two languages fluently.
What is Bilingual?
An item brought into the country for sale.
What is an import?
The exact position of a place on the earth's surface.
What is Absolute Location?
Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment.
What is Conservation?
A government controlled by one person, who usually takes power by force.
What is a dictatorship?
The world's longest mountain chain, stretching along the west coast of South America
What are the Andes Mountains?
An item that is sent out of the country for sale.
What is an export?
A map that shows elevations and landforms.
What is a Physical Map?
Number of individuals per square mile.
What is Population Density?
A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of economic life in a country.
What is a Communism?
A canal that crosses the isthmus of Panama connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Built by the United States between 1904 and 1914.
What is the Panama Canal?
A tax on imported goods.
What is a Tariff?
A map that shows man-made features such as boundaries, countries, and cities.
What is a Political Map?
Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, Place.
What are The Five Themes of Geography?