Unit 1
This is the line at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Toronto used this to help prevent urban sprawl.
What is the Official Plan?
A tropical depression becomes this when the winds reach 39 mph.
What is a tropical storm?
This is a map that shows a particular theme, or topic.
What is a thematic map?
What is 24-36 hours?
There are three continents south of the equator and east of the line at 0 degrees longitude: Asia, Africa, and this.
What is Australia?
This valley was threatened by Portland's urban sprawl.
What is the Willamette Valley?
Hurricanes are called this in the western Pacific.
This is the ring of small towns and suburbs that surround a big city.
What is an urban fringe?
Portland used this method to slow urban growth.
What is smart growth?
This is the exact location of something.
What is absolute location?
People come to the U.S. because of family, quality-of-life, and this third pull factor.
What is education?
The Maya mostly live in this country.
What is Guatemala?
This is moving from a country.
What is emigration?
The main cause of migration to urban areas in Mexico City is this.
What is rural decline?
There are six types of thematic maps: physical features, economic activities, regions, population density, climate zones, and this.
What are vegetation zones?
The money immigrants send home to their families to help them are called this.
What are remittances?
This group came to the Amazon after Native Amazonians but before the 1960s.
What are rubber tappers?
This is the overall level of comfort and well-being of a group or a country.
What is the standard of living?
Mayan civilization collapsed around this year.
What is 900 C.E.?
This map shows continents but distorts oceans.
What is the Goode's Homolosine Projection?
Atlanta used a system of trains and bus lines that serve the entire Atlanta region called this.
What is the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)?
Religious brotherhoods are called this where most of the Maya live and cargos in Chiapas.
What are cofradias?
This is the variety of plants and animals living in one area.
What is biodiversity?
Some have-nots in Mexico City live in cinder-block homes with metal or tar-covered roofs, while others live in these, which are run-down apartment buildings.
What are tenements?