Vocab
What is the measurement of distance north or south of the Equator.
Latitude
What is the definition of location?
A position or site occupied or available for occupancy or marked by some distinguishing feature.
What is definition of Physical geography.
The branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes.
What is language?
The principal method of human communication, consisting of words used in a structured and conventional way and conveyed by speech, writing, or gesture.
Aztecs were a _____ american culture.
Aztecs were a Meso american culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.
What method of agriculture in which vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown, a method for clearing forest land for farming.
Slash-and-Burn
What religion is based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices?
Where is the Appalachian Mts. a mountain located.
In the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico.
What was the largest inca empire?
Inca called Tawantinsuyu by its subjects, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
When did the expedition lead by Christopher Columbas date back? What did it sail for?
European contact/European colonization of the Americas, typically dated to 1492, when a Spanish expedition headed by Christopher Columbus sailed for India to open trade but inadvertently landed in the Americas.
The reasons that individuals might emigrate from their homes, including poverty, lack of social mobility, violence, or persecution.
Pull Factor
Describe the definition of region.
An area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.
Where the Rocky Mts. the chief mountain located.
In western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide.
What modern day issues are there?
Climate change, poverty, mental health, refugee rights, etc.
What was the holocaust?
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
The study of the forms and features of land surfaces
Topography
What are the 5 Themes of Geography
location, place, region, movement, and human- environment interaction
Name the 3 branches.
legislative, executive, and judicial,.
What is the European union?
A supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.1
Give three examples of modern day issues.
Pollution, violence, unemployment, government coruption, lack of education, etc.
A sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.
Dike
What are the 7 elements of culture geography.
Social Organization
Language
Customs and Traditions
Religion
Arts and Literature
Forms of Government
Economic Systems
What is the Constitution.
The supreme law of the United States of America
What is a Parlimentary government?
A system of government having the real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature
What is Physical geography?
Physical geography: the branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes.