Economics
Something wanted that is in demand that you bring in from another place.
What is an import?
This river is 4100 miles long, the longest in the world.
What is the Nile River?
A natural feature of the earth's surface (land based and water based)
What is a landform?
When you have extra amount of something in stock.
What is surplus?
Shared beliefs, values, customs, language and traditions among groups of people.
What is culture?
Something you make or produce that you sell to people in other places.
What is an export?
How people organize themselves. Includes social classes and norms and values.
What is a social structure?
How high something is from a fixed point. Most often this point is sea level.
What is elevation?
Describes the number of goods you have of something.
What is supply?
Something created, discovered or shared that is still valued or used in some way today.
What is cultural diffusion?
A loss, or a negative outcome/effect.
What are costs?
Small, man made river or waterways used to control the flow and direction of water.
What is a canal?
How hot each part of the world is.
What is a climate zone?
Tools, machines, and methods that allow tasks to be done more efficiently.
What is technology?
A geography theme for how humans have changed the world's environment.
What is environment interaction?
A positive outcome or effect. Something you want which is gained by giving something up.
What is a benefit?
Pictures and symbols used to record information and stories.
What is heiroglyphics?
Imaginary line is 0 degrees longitude. It divides the world in half east to west. We use it to measure degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
A group of people organized together in an organized community.
Thinking that your culture is better than someone else's culture.
What is cultural bias?
How an economy works without any money.
What is bartering?
The belief of most ancient religions.
Polytheistic
Imaginary line divides the world in half between the north and south hemispheres. It is also the closest spot to the sun.
What is the equator?
Areas where people have stopped being nomadic and have developed permanent homes.
What is a settlement?
Refers to the human and physical aspects of a location. What's it like there?
What is a place? (Geography Theme #4)