Maps
Part of the map that shows the cardinal directions
What is a compass rose?
2 reasons for population growth
What is higher birthrates and lower death rates?
A set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people
What is culture?
Location of the Amazon rainforest
What is South America?
List the 7 continents
What is Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America?
A map that shows a large amount of area, but a small amount of detail
What is a small-scale map?
Two negative effects of population growth
What is limited resources, limited space, crowding, etc.?
A repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group
What is custom?
Capital of Canada
What is Ottawa?
What is the hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere?
A type of map that is primarily used to show population density
What is thematic map?
The movement of people from rural to urban areas
What is urbanization?
When people of many cultural backgrounds live in the same place and those cultures begin to mix together
What is cultural blending?
List 5 Canadian provinces
What is Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northern Territories, Newfoundland and Labrador, Novia Scotia, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Yukon, and Nunavut?
The location of most of Earth's fresh water
What is the polar ice caps?
The main function of GPS technology
What is to locate exact locations on Earth?
The estimated time that it will take for a place to double in population
What is doubling time?
A type of culture found in large societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
What is popular culture?
Currency used in Mexico
What is the peso?
List the 3 pillars of sustainability
What is environment, society, and economy?
GIS stands for
Geographic Information System
True of False: If a place has a low death rate and a high birth rate, the doubling time will be shorter.
What is true?
A group of people with a common racial, national, tribal, religious, or cultural background
What is ethnic group?
List 3 western European countries
What is Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, etc.?
The pillar of sustainability that would survive without the other pillars
What is environment?