Geographic Themes
Characteristics of a Country
Economic Vocabulary
Ecosystem and Climate
Human Geography
100
Where a place is on the Earth
What is location?
100
The legal boundaries of a country.
What is territory?
100
A free enterprise system that empowers private individuals.
What is a market economy?
100
Weather patterns that area typically experiences over a long period of time.
What is climate.
100
The knowledge, beliefs, customs and values that define a group of people's life.
What is culture?
200
A location's physical and human characteristics.
What is place?
200
The people that live in a specific territory.
What is population?
200
Economic activities that rely directly on natural resources.
What are primary economic activities?
200
The interaction of plant life, animal life and the physical environment in which they live.
What is an ecosystem?
200
The average number of people in a square mile.
What is population density?
300
A group of places with at least one common characteristic.
What are regions?
300
The system that creates and enforces laws of the land.
What is Government?
300
Also known as subsistence economies because little surplus is produced.
What are traditional economies?
300
Major types of ecosystems that can be found in various regions of the world
What is a biome?
300
People who leave a country to live in other places.
What is an emigrant?
400
How people, goods and ideas will travel between places.
What is movement?
400
The idea that no one can tell a country what to do.
What is Sovereignty?
400
When people use raw materials to produce or manufacture new products of greater value.
What are secondary economic activities?
400
This type of biome is characterized by warm weather, heavy rain fall and thick, tropical plant life.
What is a rain forest?
400
When the skills, arts, ideas, habits and institutions of one culture come in contact with those of another culture.
What is cultural convergence?
500
How people use their environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
500
What Kansas does not have, which means it is not a country.
What is Sovereignty?
500
Includes a system of traditional, command and market economies.
What are mixed economies?
500
A layer of soil just below the surface that is permanently frozen.
What is permafrost?
500
The process by which a cultural element is transmitted across some distance from one group or individual to another.
What is diffusion?
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