GPERSIA & MRHeLP
Which letter in GPERSIA stands for beliefs and worships of God and gods?
R (Religion)
What is an embargo?
A ban on trade
What type of government has no actual government?
Anarchy
Is the Equator a line of latitude or longitude?
Latitude
What is the biggest country in South America?
Brazil
What is Human Environment Interaction?
How the environment effects humans and how humans effect the environment
What is literacy rate?
The percentage of adults that can read and write
What kind of government sees God or a divine being as their authority?
Theocracy
What kind of map projection makes Greenland and Antarctica huge?
Mercator Projection
What sickness did the Spanish bring to both the Aztec and Inca empires?
Smallpox
What is an example of Aesthetic?
Music, art, reading, drama, anything related to arts
What are the three economic questions?
What to produce, how to produce, for whom to produce
What type of government has a group of people that control the wealth?
Oligarchy
How do you know if a population is increasing by using a population pyramid?
If the base is wider than the rest of the pyramid
What was the Spanish after when they conquered the Aztec and Inca empires?
God, Gold, and Glory (3 gs)
What is relative location? (In MRHeLP)
One place compared to another place
What is an economic system?
The way society organizes the production and consumption of goods and services
Who created communism?
Karl Marx
What do you call a huge city or cluster of cities with an extremely large population?
Megalopolis
Why does Mexico City have bad air pollution?
Overcrowding, industrialization, physical geography (city is surrounded by mountains)
What is geography?
The study of physical features in the world and locations
What is the difference between market and command economies?
In a market economy, the system is based on supply and demand, and the government allows you to have private governments. In a command economy, almost everything is controlled by the government.
What is the difference between direct and representative democracies?
In a direct democracy, citizens make decisions while in a representative democracy the citizens elect leaders to make the decisions
What is the Tropic of Capricorn's coordinates?
23.5 degrees South
What are the 3 most common ways of getting rid of oil in Venezuela's water?
Absorption, skimming, and dispersing