Parallels and Meridians
What is the Equator?
What are human geography and physical geography?
Fill in the blanks: "The more power and input the citizens have in the governing of a country, the more __________ it is, while the more authority the leader has, the more ____________ the government is."
What are democratic and authoritarian?
The shortest day and longest night of the year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
The names of the seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, and Africa?
What is the Prime Meridian?
The best way to represent the earth's surface.
What is a globe?
Fill in the blank: "___________ is a system that allows individuals to make economic decisions."
What is Capitalism?
This gives information about a location based on relation to another place.
What is Relative location?
The ocean located between the Americas and Asia.
What is the Pacific?
The two lines of latitude that run near the North and South Poles, respectively, at 66 and a half degrees north and 66 and a half degrees south.
What are the Arctic and Antarctic Circles?
A means of representing the earth on a flat surface.
Fill in the blank: "_____________ is a system which relies on the government to make economic decisions."
What is Socialism?
This uses latitude and longitude to give the exact location of a place.
What is Absolute location?
The Ocean located between the Americas and Europe.
What is the Atlantic?
The important line of latitude located north of the Equator, but south of the Arctic Circle.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
Fill in the blank: "The ______________ map projection preserves the shape of things."
What is Mercator?
A term which refers largely to biological characteristics that cannot change.
What is Race?
This accounts for the cycle of day and night.
What is the rotation of earth on its axis?
The ocean between Africa and Australia (below Asia).
The important line of latitude located south of the Equator, but north of the Antarctic Circle.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
Fill in the blank: "The _____________ map projection preserves the size of things."
What is Robinson?
A term which refers to cultural habits that can be learned and altered.
What is Ethnicity?
This accounts for the cycle of the seasons.
What is the axial tilt of the earth and its revolution around the sun?
The two oceans at near the north and south poles, respectively.
What are the Arctic and Southern oceans?