Government
Economics
Culture/Religion
5 Themes of Geography
Migration and Map Skills
100

In this type of government, the leader must follow the same laws as everyone else.

What is Limited Government?

100

This basic economic problem happens when there isn't enough of a resource for everyone.

What is Scarcity?

100

The beliefs, customs, laws, and art that make up a group’s way of life.

What is Culture?

100

This theme explains how people, goods, and ideas get from place to place.

What is Movement?

100

This "factor" (like a better job or a better climate) attracts a person to move to a new country.

What is a Pull Factor?

200

This branch of the U.S. government includes the President and is responsible for carrying out laws.

What is the Executive Branch

200

This person takes a risk to start a new business in hopes of making a profit.

What is an Entrepreneur?

200

These are the three major world religions that all began in the Middle East.

What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?

200

This theme describes what a location is like, such as "it is mountainous" or "it has many skyscrapers.

What is Place?

200

This part of a map explains what the symbols, lines, and colors stand for.

What is the Map Key or Legend?

300

A government where the leader has total control and citizens have no rights or "say."

What is an Unlimited Government or Dictatorship?

300

This term describes how much wealth, comfort, and "stuff" the average person in a country has.

What is Standard of Living?

300

This is the term for a religion that believes in only one God.

What is Monotheism? 

300

When humans adapt to their environment by wearing a heavy coat in the winter, they are using this theme.

What is Human-Environment Interaction?

300

These imaginary lines run East and West and are used to measure distance from the Equator.

What are lines of Latitude?

400

This is the name for the written plan of government that protects the rights of the people.

What is a Constitution?

400

A tax placed on goods that are imported from another country.

What is a Tariff?

400

This major world religion, common in India and parts of SE Asia, believes in karma and reincarnation

What is Hinduism or Buddhism?

400

If you give your address as "three blocks past the gas station," you are giving this type of location.

What is Relative Location?

400

This term describes the process of people moving from small country towns into big cities.

What is Urbanization?

500

Name two "Civic Responsibilities" that citizens in a democracy are expected to perform.

What are voting, serving on a jury, or paying taxes?

500

In this type of economic system, the government tells producers exactly what to make and what to charge.

What is a Command Economy?

500

This "holy city" is considered sacred by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike.

What is Jerusalem?

500

Geographers use this theme to group different places together because they share a similar climate or language.

What is Region?

500

This type of map shows the "lay of the land," including mountains, plains, and bodies of water.

What is a Physical Map?