Unit 1-Geo Skills
A Geographic Region
What is an area that shares unifying characteristics?
An old, eroded mountain range that runs from Alabama in the south to Canada in the north
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
A Push Factor
What is something that pushes people to migrate away from a region?
A Natural Boundary
What is a geographic feature that determines a political (or cultural) border?
The Asian part of Russia, or Eastern Russia
What is Siberia?
A natural resource that can be depleted
What is a non-renewable resource?
A "Chinatown"
What is an ethnic enclave/concentration of ethnic minorities within a larger city, ex. Little Italy.
An example of one of the Vertical Zones of South America
What is Tierra Caliente, Templada, Fria, Nevada, or Helada?
The longest river in Europe
What is the Volga?
The Northernmost Siberian Biome
What is the Tundra?
A Secondary economic activity
What is a manufacturing job (making something)
A high GDP, high Literacy, low infant mortality, advanced infrastructure
What are indicators of a developed county?
A desert in South America located near the Pacific Ocean. The driest desert in the world
What is the Atacama Desert
The Peninsula where Spain and Portugal are located
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
The piece of infrastructure that connects the major cities of Russia
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
Perspective (Vocabulary)
What is a particular attitude or way of considering something, shaped by cultural, historical, and personal contexts
A Boundary River to the United States
What are the Rio Grande or St. Lawrence Rivers?
The major piece of infrastructure that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, used for shipping and trade
What is the Panama Canal?
A famous cultural conflict in Europe (that we learned about
What are the Troubles of Northern Ireland or the Break-up of Yugoslavia
The major Russian river that flows Northwards into the Arctic Ocean
What is the Ob river?
A Quaternary Economic Activity
What is a information-based tertiary job (banker, secretary, etc)
A U.S. City founded on a confluence of rivers
What is Pittsburgh?
The three cultural groups that shape the cultural landscape of Latin America and Brazil.
What are the Indigenous Americans, Africans, and Spanish/Portuguese (European)?
Name the three countries that comprise the "Low Countries" region of Europe
What are the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg?
The English translation of "chernozem"
What is black earth?