What is the area between the Arctic circle and Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn and Antarctic Circle?
What is the latitude zone with four seasons?
What is the latitude zone most affected by the tilt of the earth?
100
Spain, Italy, France, Greece
What are countries that border the Mediterranean Sea?
100
Farming, mining, fishing
What are primary economic activities?
100
Two types of location
What are absolute and relative
100
Major transportation innovation in the 1800s
What is RR
200
Mountain barriers, cold ocean currents, high atmospheric pressure
Innovations that led to the settlement of the American west
What are irrigation and airconditioning
200
Building polders in the Netherlands
What is human/environment interaction?
200
Year population graph starts going up rapidly
What is 1950
300
lack of precipitation, NOT HEAT
What is the defining characteristic of a desert
300
Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic
What are countries in the Caribbean? (West Indies)
300
The 20th century
What is the 1900s.
300
What three things move?
What are people, goods and ideas?
300
Improved sanitation, modern medicine
What caused the drop in the death rate and population explosion.
400
Humid subtropical
What is the climate of the DFW area?
What is a climate type with the word "tropical" that is NOT found in the low latitudes?
400
Country between Switzerland and Hungary?
What is Austria?
400
Desert in Chile
What is the Atacama Desert
400
Factors that cause emigration/immigration
What are push/pull factors?
400
Urban areas
What is where over 50% of the world live?
500
North Atlantic Drift
What is the reason Europe is warmer than it should be at a higher latitude?
500
Countries of the Iberian Peninsula
What are Portugal and Spain?
500
Economic system based on capitalism. What is produced and what it costs is determined by supply and demand. Private ownership and profit motive are characteristics of this system.
What is free enterprise
500
Every place has characteristics in two categories. You can't fully describe place with out describing both......
What human and physical characteristics?
500
Economic changes proposed in Cuba are moving them toward..... from.....