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Answers what it is like.
What is Place?
Answers where it is.
What is Location?
Answers how people relate to their environment.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
Answers how people, goods, and ideas are moved.
What is Movement?
Answers how areas are linked together or how we divide the world.
What is a Region?
Belief in one god / God
What is Monotheism?
What is a Traditional Economy?
Misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.
What is a Cult?
A form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but which is usually exercised indirectly through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed
What is a Democracy?
Uses natural resources or raw materials
What is a Primary Industry?
Landforms, bodies of water, climate, soil, etc. are examples.
What are Physical Characteristics?
Where something is in relation to something else.
What is Relative Location?
Uses raw materials or natural resources to manufacture other products
What is a Secondary Industry?
The exact point of something.
What is Absolute Location?
Population density, languages, religion, culture, etc. are examples.
What are Human Characteristics?
An economy where decisions are mixed between consumers, businesses, and government.
What is a Mixed Economy?
What is a Command Economy?
A condition of lawlessness or political disorder brought about by the absence of governmental authority.
What is Anarchy?
Lack of belief or a strong disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods
What is Atheism?
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on all sides.
What is an Island?
Tells the average weather in a place.
What is Climate?
Belief in many gods
What is Polytheism?
Sunny and dry, less than 10 inches of rain a year; hot during the daytime and cooler temps in the night.
What is a Desert?
What is Christianity?
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on all sides except for one.
What is a Peninsula?
An economy that has very little government involvement.
What is a Free Market Economy?
Goods and services are exchanged; provide services to people and businesses
What is a Tertiary Industry?
Helps know which direction one is headed
What is a Compass Rose?
A large group or chain of islands.
What is an Archipelago?
Focus on achieving enlightenment - a state of inner peace and wisdom
What is Buddhism?
Known as parallels; horizontal
What are Lines of Latitude?
0 degrees latitude line
What is the Equator?
Research and distribution; processes and distributes information
What is a Quaternary Industry?
Freezing all year; snow and ice, very little precipitation; no vegetation.
What is an Ice Cap?
Known as meridians; vertical
What are Lines of Longitude?
3 ways that humans can impact or use the environment.
What is depend, modify, and adapt?
A religion based on the teachings of Muhammad which is based on the Five Pillars of Islam; there is only one God.
What is Islam?
A religion with belief in one God; originated with Abraham and Hebrew people; is preserved in the Old Testament.
A narrow strip of land with water on both sides connecting two larger pieces of land.
What is an Isthmus?
Art of map-making.
What is Cartography?
What is Culture?
A system of government in which a monarch is guided by a constitution whereby his/her rights, duties, and responsibilities are spelled out in written law or by custom.
What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
Form of government in which priests or religious leaders rule in the name of a deity or deities
What is a Theocracy?
0 degrees longitude line
Direct connection between a unit of measurement on the map and the actual distance
What is a Map Scale
A series of ethical principles for orderly conduct of daily life in China; personal ethics and morality.
What is Confucianism?
Political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
What is Communism?
4 Components of a Map
What are Title, Scale, Legend (Key), and Compass Rose?
Culture traits that are well known and widely accepted
What is Popular Culture?
A single, powerful ruler has total control over a country
What is a Dictatorship?
Assistance to people in distress; UNICEF, Red Cross, Doctors without Borders
What is Humanitarian Aid?
Indicates the theme of a map, explaining what is being represented
What is the Title?
State of having a variety of cultures in the same area
What is Cultural Diversity?
What is Globalization?
Spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior
What is Diffusion?
A government in which control is exercised by a small group of individuals whose authority generally is based on wealth or power.
What is an Oligarchy?
First Day of Winter
What is the Winter Solstice?
Used to unlock the secrets of a map; objects or colors represent something on the map
The number of time zones that Earth is divided into.
What is 24 Time Zones?
First Day of Summer
What is the Summer Solstice?