Basic Map Skills
The relationship between a distance on a map and the actual distance on the ground.
What is a map scale?
The study of Earth’s physical features, like landforms, climates, and ecosystems.
What is Physical Geography?
Factors that drive people to leave a country or region (like NO jobs, war) AND factors that attract people to a country or region (like job opportunities, safe environment).
What are PUSH and PULL factors?
These unique graphs can be described as Expansive (high birth rates), Constrictive (low birth rates), and Stationary (stable population growth).
What are the 3 types of population pyramids?
The language, religion, customs, traditions, art, and social structures, etc. of a society or people.
What are the main Elements of Culture?
Define longitude and latitude.
What are longitude (vertical lines measuring east or west of the Prime Meridian) and latitude (horizontal lines measuring north or south of the Equator)?
Oil, coal, lumber (trees) and fish are types of these items found on earth.
What are natural resources?
Areas that are formal (defined by uniform characteristics), functional (centered on a focal point), and perceptual (based on perceptions).
What are the 3 types of Regions?
Poor healthcare, malnutrition, and lack of clean water can lead to this rate (i.e. birth rate- NO that's not that answer).
What are high Infant Mortality Rates (IMR)?
This city/site is sacred in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
What is the city of Jerusalem?
Define absolute and relative location.
What are absolute location (precise coordinates like 40°N, 74°W) and relative location (a place’s position relative to another, such as NYC being northeast of Philadelphia)?
Tectonic process starting deep from the earth's core, often creating magma, lava and new landforms, releasing gases into the atmosphere, and destroying ecosystems.
What are volcanoes?
The spread of cultural elements from one society to another.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
A country with high wealth, a high standard of living, and strong infrastructure.
What indicates a country with a High GDP (gross domestic product)?
This is a political and economic union of European countries that work to promote trade and cooperation in the region.
What is the European Union (EU)?
Two tech advances. One described as a satellite-based navigation system for precise locations AND the second as a system for analyzing and displaying geographic data.
What is a Global Positioning System (GPS) and a Geographic Information System (GIS)?
Temperatures cool and the air becomes thinner as this happens.
What is an increase in elevation?
Slowing population growth, increased urbanization, and aging populations in developed countries.
What are current global population trends?
A country in poverty with a low standard of living, and limited infrastructure.
What indicates a country with a Low GDP (gross domestic product)?
This organization promotes peace, security, and development globally, especially in war-torn or less-developed countries.
What is the United Nation (UN)?
Movement, Region, Human-environment interaction, Location and Place.
What are the 5 Themes of Geography?
These "rivers" within the oceans regulate temperatures and precipitation (rain) around the world all year long, dude!
What are Ocean Currents?
The cause of intentional or unintentional preserving of unique traditions, while limiting outside influences.
How has isolation affected the development of culture?
2 Forms Of Government: 1) the power of government is held by elected representatives and 2) all resources are owned and controlled by the government.
What is a Republic country and what is a Communist country?
This index is made of the factors: life expectancy, education level and income per capita.
What factors make up the Human Development Index (HDI)?