5 themes of Geography
The position on the Earth’s surface.
What is Location?
two tectonic plates move toward each other.
What is convergent boundaries?
Latitude, , Amount of Rainfall, elevation
What are factors that effect climate?
When a city continues to expand outward gobbling up land and resources.
What is Urban Sprawl?
Cutting down trees and burning the land to create agricultural fields.
What is slash and burning agriculture?
The way people, products, information, and ideas move place to place
What is movement?
two tectonic plates move away from each other
What are divergent boundaries?
The temperature or precipitation at a movement vs. The temperature and precipitation over a long period of time.
What is weather vs. climate?
The use of increased land and the need for increased infrastructure. It creates higher taxes and increased traffic.
What are the problems of Urban Sprawl?
The Andes mountains act as a barrier, preventing settlement of the interior into Western South America. The Amazon acts a a route into the interior but is large and can be treacherous to traverse.
The specific (unique) human and physical features of a location
What is place?
Two tectonic plates slide next to each other.
What is transform boundaries?
Acts as the earth's air condition and effects weather patterns.
What is the Ocean's role?
Because the US was formed greatly valuing freedom and independence, and fought a revolution, they would never accept a monarchy.
What is the reason the US's government system looks different than Canada's?
Northern Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
What are the regions of Europe?
An area that is defined by a unifying physical or human characteristic.
What is Region?
What is formed at a convergent boundary?
One breaks materials down and the other carries them away.
What is weathering vs. erosion?
The American economy is a mixed, free market economy.
What is the economy of the US?
Exposure to Spanish and the Catholic religion. The institution of plantations and slavery, resulting in inequality and prejudice. The introduction of diseases to native peoples. The connection of Latin America to the European world.
What are the impacts of Spanish colonization of Latin America?
The changes humans make to their environment and how humans adapt to their environment
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
Rift valley
What is formed at a divergent boundary?
This country still has a monarchy but also has a parliment, whereas its neighbor has a democratic republic.
What are the governmental differences between Canada and USA?
Because America is based on freedom and independence, a mixed, free market economy with Capitalist ideals would appeal to its ideals. Free market economics allows the people to decide what is produced. Capitalism places the decisions in hands of the people.
Why free market economics and Capitalism appeals to American ideals?
Driving Pillions into the ground to create land to live on in response to being driven out of the Europe by the barbarians.
Creating cisterns and filtering the water with sand and stone to have fresh water on the man-made islands.
What are examples Human-Environment interaction in Venice?
The tilt of the earth is responsible for the seasons. When the earth is tilted toward the sun, those countries experience summer. When it is tilted away, those countries experience winter?
How does the tilt of the earth affect season?
Earthquake
What happens at Transform boundaries?
The equator and the horizontal lines moving north and south across the globe.
What are latitude line?
The prime meridian and the vertical lines moving East and West across the globe.
What are longitude lines?
Northern Europe is more peaceful and stable than the other regions because it has one religion and one overarching culture. Eastern Europe has many cultures and they often dispute land boundaries leading to conflict and instability. Western Europe has two leading cultures and two religions and cultures (French and German, Catholicism and Protestantism). South Europe was the birth place of many ancient civilizations and lasting ideas but has failed to take a more prominent role in modern Europe.
What are the differences between the regions of Europe?