Culture
McDonalds opened in California in 1940. In the past 60 years, over 120 countries have opened their own McDonalds. This is an example of ______________ ___________.
What is culture diffusion?
This type of map will show you major cities and boundaries.
What is a political map?
The Human Development Index is a ranking system that is determined by these THREE economic indicators.
What is literacy rate, life expectancy, and GDP per capita?
A time period when things changed from being hand made to being factory produced.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This type of government has a queen or king but their powers are limited by a set of laws.
What is Constitutional Monarchy?
A reason to leave a country (war, famine, natural disasters)
What is a push factor?
Precipitation, population density, and resources can all be found on this type of map.
What is a thematic map?
A country that has primary, secondary, and _________ levels of industry is a developed country.
What is tertiary?
This man became the first black president of South Africa after the end of Apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This branch of the US government creates the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
a person that is native to a certain area (ex: Aborigines of Australia)
What is indigenous?
Invisible lines that circle Earth parallel to the Equator.
What is latitude?
The supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
What is irrigation?
What is civil disobedience?
In North Korea, Kim Jon Un makes all of the decisions for the country in this type of government.
What is Unlimited Government/dictatorship?
A religion that believes in multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
The number of individuals occupying an area in relation to the size of that area.
What is population density?
An economic system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners, rather than by the government.
What is Capitalism?
The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
What is colonization?
A multinational union or association in which member countries give up authority and sovereignty on at least some internal matters to the group and its leaders.
What is a supranational organization?
A period of time when a large number of immigrants arrive is known as this type of wave.
What is immigration/migration wave?
Entirely surrounded by land; having no coastline or seaport.
What is landlocked?
The migration from rural areas to cities in a short period of time.
What is rapid urbanization?
Changing the environment to fit human needs. (ex: building the Three Gorges Dam to to supply water to the largest hydroelectric plant in the world)
What is modification?
A set of written rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works.
What is the Constitution?