Five Themes of Geography
What are the five themes of geography?
Place, movement, location, region, HEI.
Since 1960s what kind of fishing has been important in South America?
Saltwater
What is demography?
The study of population.
Did indigenous Latin Americans have their own religious beliefs?
Yes
They often transfer goods by what kind of pack animals.
Lamas, mules, horses, and alpacas.
What does HEI stand for?
Human Environment Interaction.
Venezuela possesses what percent of Latin America's crude oil reserves?
85%
What is life expectancy?
Gives the average length of time that a person in a country or region will live.
What is Polytheism?
Belief in more than one god.
What makes trade difficult in Latin America?
The Andes Mountains.
What is the definition of a political region?
Political lines are drawn by people.
The major oil producers in the region?
Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, and Ecuador.
What is fertility rate?
Statistics that tells how many children, on average, each woman in a nation would be expected to produce during her lifetime.
What did the Aztec's believe in?
They believed that the sun needed the blood of humans to rise.
What makes travel extremely difficult?
Mountains
What is the difference between place and location?
Location tells you where something is on the earth, and place is where you can make a mental image of the place in you head.
The tropical climate and rich soil of Central America and the Caribbean are perfect for growing what?
Sugar, coffee, cocoa, bananas, and other fruit.
What is population growth rate?
Measures how quickly the population of a nation is increasing.
Who brought Christianity to Latin America?
Europeans
Some Andean cities are so remote they are accessible only along what?
Rivers or by airplanes.
What is the absolute location of Emersyns house?
Her address
In Mexico and the Caribbean why are water resources valuable?
Because they help drive the tourism industry.
What is a population pyramid?
Represents the age range and proportions in a society. It places the amount of younger people at the bottom and extends upward with age.
What did religious practices include?
Offerings, sacrifices, purification, pilgrimages, dancing, and fasting.
Today people still use many of the roads originally built be who?
the Inca