Chapter 1 Part 1
Place within a world region are linked by size, language, and climate. True/False
What is false?
They are link by trade, culture, and other human activities.
What information does the compass rose on a map give?
What is directions north, south, east, and west?
In what hemisphere would you find most of Africa?
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
What divides the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern Hemisphere?
What is the prime meridian?
A river is a path of water that flows from a low elevation to a high elevation. True/False
What is false?
A river flows from a high elevation to a low elevation.
Fish and plants for people's diets accurately lists what type of resources?
What are biological resources?
What do a dictatorship and an oligarchy have in common?
How people live, behave, and think in their region is best defined as...
What is culture?
What are geographic patterns?
What is similarities among places?
What is the equator?
What type of information is found on a physical map?
What are natural features?
What theme of geography explains the spread of religions around the world?
What is movement?
What is true?
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time is known as what?
What is weather?
What did the United Nations do to keep peace and protect human rights immediately after World War II?
What is they formed a commission to decide on which rights all people should have?
What is a civilization?
What is a society with a highly developed culture and technology
In what region is India located?
What is South Asia?
What are the lines of longitude on a map?
What are imaginary lines that run north to south from the North Pole to the South Pole?
You would most likely use a thematic map if you were looking for information about population density. True/False
What is true?
Thematic maps are about a specific theme, or topic. This includes point symbol maps, dot density maps. and proportional symbol maps.
Earth revolves around the sun at 110,000 miles per hour. True/False
What is false?
It revolves around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour.
What are the main causes of erosion? List at least 3.
What is ice, wind, water (flooding), and air?
Materials used to make products best defines what?
What are raw materials?
What is a free enterprise economy?
What are privately owned businesses create goods that people buy in markets?
How would you describe a democracy?
What is citizens elect representatives?
What does a map's scale show?
What is the purpose of a large scale map?
What is to show details, such as street names, of a particular area?
What is an absolute location?
What is the exact point where a place is located?
How would you describe what Earth's outer core consists of?
What is mostly liquid molten iron and nickel?
Subduction, divergence, convergence, and transform are terms that describe what?
What are the four ways tectonic plates move?
Ocean habitats that can recover and grow if human impact is limited, are known as what?
What are marine protected areas?
Food, music, stories, and religious beliefs are a few examples of what?
What are expressions of culture?
Which sector of economic activity involves using raw materials from the soil or water?
What does the locator globe on a map show?
What is the specific area of the world that is shown on the map?
What are map projections?
What are ways of showing Earth's curved surface on a flat map?
How might one describe human-environment interaction?
What is how people affect the environment and how the environment affects people?
Why are there more volcanoes and earthquakes along the Pacific Rim (the Ring of Fire) than anywhere else in the world?
What is the edges are part of tectonic plates that are sliding against another tectonic plate under the ocean?
In what climate region is most of the eastern half of the United States?
What is humid temperate?
What is communism?
What is a type of command economy in which the government owns all property?
What is an oligarchy?
What is a group of a few people who rule society?
What type of human rights gives people the right to work?
What are economic rights?