Location, Place, Human Environmental Interaction, Movement, and Region
What are the five themes of Geography?
100
Culture
What are the actions and beliefs that define a group called? Examples: language, religion, and traditions
100
Mountains, forests, Great Lakes, rivers and oceans
What are the major physical features of the United States?
100
Impacts of natural disasters include: fatalities, injuries, sickness, and violence.
What impacts do natural disasters have on Latin America?
100
Landforms
What is another name for mountains, plateaus, hills, and plains?
200
Absolute Location
What is the exact location of a place?
200
Population density
What is the average number of people in a square mile?
200
Coastal plains, prairies, forests, Great Lakes, and Archipelago
What are the major features of Canada?
200
Because of the language, religion, and traditions of the region.
What are the main reasons why Latin America is known as Latin America?
200
forestry and commercial fishing
What two economic activities do western natural resources support?
300
lines of latitude
What are parallel lines that measure distances north and south called? Example: Equator
300
Cultural hearth
What is a place where important ideas begin to move and spread to surrounding cultures called?
Example: ideas and traditions
300
People in northern territories can communicate via telephone and internet
How has Canada's investment in communication helped to unite northern Canada with the rest of Canada?
300
Products such as land, lumber, paper, cattle (from cleared land) and minerals are obtained from the forest regions of Latin America
Examples: Slash and Burn
What are the reasons deforestation has affected Latin America?
300
Tools of technology used by geographers
What are the sonar, satellite, GPS and GIS in terms of geography?
400
lines of longitude
What are vetical lines that measure distances east and west called? Example: Prime Meridian
400
People adapt to their environment in industry, travel, and clothing; even the foods they eat.
How do physical characteristics like mountains, climate, and bodies of water influence culture?
400
The regions of Canada are more distinct because of the extreme changes in climate and physical features of Canada.
Why are the regions of Canada more distinct than those of the United States?
400
Native Americans, Whites, African Americans and Asians
What major ethnic groups live in Latin America?
400
The ecosystem
What part of the environment do forests, grasslands, deserts, and tundras affect?
500
Geography
What is the study of people, places and things and how they relate to one another?
500
People live longer due to modern technology: medical care and increased food production
What has caused population growth?
500
Canals transported crops; railroads transported goods long distances and through mountains; wide rivers allow for transport and fishing; automobiles allowed people to circumvent mountains and travel over long expanses of land
How did the physical geography of the United States contribute to growth and development?