🧭 Map Skills
What is the study of Earth’s physical features, climates, and people?
Geography
What biome is extremely cold and has permanently frozen soil?
Tundra
What word describes a group’s language, religion, food, holidays, and clothing?
Culture
What term means the number of people living in a certain amount of land?
Population density
What is an area that shares physical or cultural characteristics called?
Region
What do we call a location described in relation to another place?
Relative location
What climate zone is warm year-round and located near the Equator?
Tropical
What is it called when food, language, music, or customs spread between cultures?
Cultural diffusion
Is war usually a push factor or pull factor?
Push factor
What term means countries rely on each other for goods, resources, and services?
Global interdependence
What imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Equator
What landform is a group or chain of connected mountains?
Mountain range
Sushi becoming popular throughout the United States is an example of what?
Cultural diffusion
A person moves to another city for a better job. Is the job a push or pull factor?
Pull factor
A map showing population density across the United States is what type of map?
Thematic map
What imaginary line divides Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
What landform connects to a body of water on 3 sides?
Peninsula
Urban communities usually have a high or low population density?
High
Why do many people settle near fresh water and fertile land?
Water and fertile land support survival, farming, and settlement.
A phone is designed in the U.S., assembled in China, and uses materials from other countries. What global process does this show?
Globalization
What is the difference between latitude and longitude?
Latitude measures north/south of the Equator; longitude measures east/west of the Prime Meridian.
Name the three climate zones.
Tropical, Temperate, Polar, Arid, Continental
Explain one difference between a rural and an urban community.
Rural = fewer people/more open land; Urban = more people/large cities.
A family leaves because a drought destroyed its crops and moves somewhere with better jobs. Identify the push factor AND pull factor.
Push: drought/crop loss; Pull: better jobs
Explain how global trade makes countries interdependent.
Countries rely on one another to buy and sell resources, goods, and services they need.