Geography
The physical feature that most major cities locate near
What are rivers?
This is the spread of culture from one group to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
What is economy?
A system where people produce, sell, and buy.
What is government?
An organization that keeps order, sets rules, and provides services for a society.
Is a Democracy limited or unlimited?
Limited
The physical feature that would have been the 1st obstacle for British settlers wanting to migrate west.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
What is eating Mexican food and celebrating Cinco de Mayo?
Other examples: speak Spanish and practice Roman Catholicism
What is a Free-Enterprise economy?
Privet owned businesses create goods and services that people buy in markets.
What is a Democracy? Give an example.
Citizens elect representatives to govern them.
What is a thematic map? What is an example of something you might find on one?
Focuses on a specific topic. THEME
This physical feature is a natural border between Mexico and the United States.
What is the Rio Grande River?
These are two ancient civilizations were primarily located in Mexico.
Who are the Mayans and Aztecs?
What is a command economy?
Government owns or controls most of the economy.
What is a Dictatorship? Give an example.
On person, the dictator, rises to power and rules society.
The Prime Meridian break the Earth into what two hemispheres?
Western and Eastern Hemisphere
These physical features together make up the largest fresh body of water on Earth?
What are the Great Lakes?
This is an example of the cultural impact that the French had on Canada.
What is French settlers establishing the French language, type of government, and Catholicism as a religion in Canada?
What kind of economy does the United States have?
Mixed Economy.
What is a Monarchy? Give an example.
A king, queen, or emperor rules society.
What is a map scale? Give an example.
refers to the relationship between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground
This physical feature connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
What is the St. Lawrence River?
This is an example of Spanish explorer's cultural impact on Mexico.
What is Spanish explorers brought their Spanish language, Christianity, foods like chocolate, animals such as horses, and diseases that greatly reduced the population of the Aztecs.
What three things do you look at to determine a counties level of development?
life expectancy, literacy rate, and GDP per capita
What is the difference in a limited and unlimited government.
In a limited government the government has little control where in a unlimited government the government has complete control.
What is the Human Development Index? HDI
A ranking system used to determine a countries level of development.