Part 1
You can use this tool to find direction on a map.
Compass rose
The tilt of the Earth causes these changes during the course of the year.
Seasons
This kind of graph shows age groups and gender in a population.
Population pyramid
Government type where one person rules with total control.
Dictatorship
A tax on goods from another country, which can make imported goods more expensive.
Tariff
The Earth is divided into this many time zones.
24
This graph shows temperature and precipitation over the year.
Climograph
This type of source is written after an event by someone who didn’t experience it.
Secondary
Economic term describing when there isn’t enough of something.
Scarcity
A mixed economy blends parts of these two economic systems.
Market and command economies
These imaginary lines run east to west and measure how far north or south a place is.
Latitude
The higher you go up a mountain, the more it gets like this.
Cold
A wide base on a population pyramid shows a high number of this.
Young people
What vocabulary term is defined as believing your own culture is better than others.
Cultural bias
This term describes when people move from rural areas to cities.
Urbanization
This word describes the way all map projections change the Earth?
Distortion
In this kind of map, countries are resized to show data.
Cartogram
This vocabulary term tells us how crowded an area is.
Population density
When cultures share ideas, food, or inventions. This often happens when societies interact through trade or warfare.
Cultural diffusion
In this system, people and businesses own most things and make decisions about production.
Capitalism
If one inch on the map equals 100 miles, this information is shown here.
Map scale
These moving pieces of Earth’s crust shape the planet.
Tectonic plates
Name this geographic feature. A narrow strip of land connecting two larger areas.
Isthmus
Economic term describing how choosing one thing means giving up another.
Opportunity cost
This factor of production refers to the money and tools used to make goods.
Capital