MAPS
All about culture
RIVERS
FEATURES OF THE LAND
GENERAL TERMS
100
What is the distance on a map as compared to actual distance on the earth?
What is scale
100
This helps to answer basic question about life and the world
.Religion
100
What do we call smaller streams and/or rivers that feed the main/larger river?
Tributary
100
What is an area with some unifying characteristics; such as The Great Lakes; Latin America; or the Himalaya Mts.?
Region
200
What is a map that shows landforms such as mountains, hills, valleys...as well as bodies of water?
Physical Maps
200
Its basic purpose is to keep order in society?
Government
200
Found at the mouth of a river, this is an area of fertile soil that is very good for farming.
Delta
200
How many oceans are there?
Four
200
What are Location, Place, Region, Movement, and Human/Environment Interaction.
What are the 5 themes of Geography?
300
What do we call abnormal changes in the size and shapes of earth's landforms?
Distortion
300
This element of culture are forms of expression showing what a society values.
Arts & Literature
300
What is the place called where the river flows into an ocean or sea?
Mouth
300
To adapt to geographic differences.
This explains why different societies develop.
300
What do we call the movement of people from one place to another?
Migration
400
What is the name of a map that has little or no distortion?
Globe
400
All the ways people in a particular society communicate?
Language
400
This is the place where a river begins.
Source
400
Name an example of a political region.
county, town, school district...
400
This describes what people have done to alter their environment and how the environment effects people?
Human/Environment Interaction
500
This shows cardinal directions on a map?
Compass Rose
500
Economics
This element of culture helps to decide how to use limited resources to meet unlimited needs and wants
500
What is a large natural stream of water that empties into a ocean, lake or other body of water called?
A River
500
This Describes the movement of ideas.
Cultural Diffusion
500
What is the reason why people trade with different regions around the world? Americans buy cars made in Japan and sneakers made in China.
Interdependence
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