Map Skills
The definition of this word is the study of places and the relationship between people and their environment
What is Geography?
This is the word used to describe a natural feature of the Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
This is answered by TRUE OR FALSE. Latitude, Cultural differences, War/disputes create Natural Borders?
False
THIS IS ANSWERED BY TRUE OR FALSE: Factors that influence Population Pyramids are birth rates, death rates, fertility rates, growth rates, and migrational trends
True
The shared characteristics of a group of people that are important to daily life
What is culture?
This is the order in which coordinates are written. ________ followed by _________.
Latitude followed by longitude
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses.
What is an Isthmus?
an imaginary line separating one country or state from another.
This is the rapid, often poorly planned spread of development from an urban area outward in?
What is Urban Sprawl?
Food, Social Behaviors, Music, Tradition/Traditional/Holidays/festivals, and language are all examples of this.
What is a culture/cultural trait?
This geographic perspective focuses on the relative/absolute location of things. Often using maps.
What is the spatial perspective?
DAILY DOUBLE
A raised, flat area of land with cliffs, smaller than a mesa. This is left over after a large plateau is eroded away.
What is a Butte?
Open borders which allows for trade, travel, alliances, a centralized government, and same currency are benefits of joining this organization.
What is the European Union?
This is calculated by dividing the population by the area.
Population Density
DAILY DOUBLE
Going viral. This type of diffusion is rapid and widespread throughout a population. It often spreads quickly through social media.
What is contagious diffusion?
This is where we begin and end measuring latitude lines
What is the equator and 0 N/0 S?
This boundary between tectonic plates is where two plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
DAILY DOUBLE
__________ cooperation is when countries work toward shared goals, but they remain separate countries. They give up some of their individual freedom to be a part of a larger overarching group.
What is supranational cooperation?
A term used to describe a migrant fleeing from danger or persecution.
What is a refugee?
This word, beginning with an A, is when two cultures combine foods, music, and celebrations to form a brand-new cultural identity. Which term describes this?
Amalgamation
These are the words that DOGSTAILS stands for.
What is Date, Orientation, Grid, Scale, Title, Author, Index, Legend, and Source?
These steep-sided volcanoes, where the lava doesn't flow very far before it solidifies, are formed by alternate layers of ash and lava. They have Large/violent explosions.
What is Composite (Strato-volcanoes)?
These forces that bring people in different countries together, or unite them. These forces divide people or keep them separate.
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces
Describe a rapid growth population pyramid (what does it look like, what kind of countries does it happen in)
has a population that is increasing at a very quick rate, higher chance of happening in developing nations.
What is the most common language family in the world? (begins with "Indo-")
Indo - European