What is Geography?
The two primary categories of geography.
What are Physical and Human geography?
This is the longest line of latitude, circling the globe at 0 degrees and dividing the earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This refers to temperature, precipitation, and wind during short periods of time in local regions.
What is weather?
True or false: All countries agree on boundaries and border lands.
What is false?
Fill in the blank: The more authority the leaders possess, the more _______ the government is.
What is authoritarian (or autocratic)?
Describe why it is important to study Geography?
Humans have a direct relationship with the earth. We affect the earth and the earth affects us.
This map projection preserves the shape of areas.
What is Mercator?
This refers to the weather patterns of large regions over longer periods of time.
What is climate?
Refers to the study of human population, including its increases, decreases, and migrations.
What is demographics?
With this type of government, citizens have more input and power.
What is democratic?
List the oceans and continents.
What are N. America, S. America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica. Pacific O., Atlantic O., Indian O., Arctic O., and Southern O.
This map projection preserves size.
What is Robinson?
This occurs on the shortest day and longest night of the year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
This type of map shows the man-made borders of countries.
What is political?
Describe Capitalism.
A system that allows individuals to make decisions about the economy; what to produce, how to produce it, and what to do with the finished product.
Describe the three main categories of physical geography.
Cartography, topography, meteorology
This line runs north-south, circles the globe at 0 degrees, and divides the earth into Western and Eastern hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Describe why we have seasons on earth.
Due to the earth's tilt, some areas of earth experience more direct sunlight than others, causing summer in some areas and winter in others.
The family of languages representing the MOST speakers in the world.
What is the Indo-European family?
Describe Socialism.
A "welfare state" system in which the government looks after the economic welfare of its citizens. Economic power is "centralized" in the government.
Describe the four main categories of human geography.
cultural, economic, political, historical
Define and describe the two ways to discuss location on a map.
Relative location: describes the location of a place in relation to another place.
Absolute location: uses latitude and longitude to give the exact location of a place.
These are fast moving air currents that are predictable, but can cause violent storms to erupt, if the conditions are right.
What are trade winds?
Describe the difference between race and ethnicity.
Ethnicity: incorporates several features, including race, language, cultural practices, and religion. It is different from race because ethnicity is learned and CAN change.
The term Communism originally refers to...
What is an entire atheistic worldview that sought to set up a system in which people would hold everything in common?