What is the process of cutting down trees and clearing the land called?
100
Push Factors
What are factors and events that "push" people out of an area, such as war, poverty, and unemployment.
100
Equator
What is the imaginary line that divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?
100
Imports
What do we call products that are brought into a country?
100
Cartographer
What is a mapmaker?
200
Citizen
What is a legal resident of a country called?
200
Geography
What is the study of people, places and the environment?
200
Culture
What is the beliefs, customs, and ways of living that a group of people share?
200
Relative Location
What is the location of one place in relation to another place, such as the United States is north of Mexico?
200
Transportation Barriers
What do we call physical features that slow or prevent transportation?
300
Economics
What is the management of resources and money?
300
Mediterranean Sea
What is the sea that separates southern Europe from Africa?
300
Absolute Location
What is the exact spot on earth where a place is found, such as 675 Grove Road, West Deptford New Jersey, 08066?
300
Russia and Turkey
What are the two countries that span 2 continents?
300
Multiculturalism
What is the acceptance of many cultures called?
400
The Ural Mountains
What is the mountain range that divides Europe & Asia?
400
Culture Region
What is an area of the world in which many people share similar beliefs and customs?
400
Place
What is the physical features and human characteristics of an area?
400
Pangaea
What is the name of the "super" continent that was a giant landmass consisting of all of the 7 current continents?
400
Landforms
What do we call physical features on the earths surface such as mountains, valleys, and plateaus?
500
The 7 continents in alphabetical order
What is Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America?
500
Interdependence
When an event in one part of the world affects another part of the world, such as when the price of oil is raised in the Middle East the price of gas will rise here at the gas station.
500
Naturalization
What is the process of becoming a citizen called?
500
Adapt to, Depend on, and Modify
What are the three ways humans interact with their environment?
500
Prime Meridian
What is the imaginary line that runs north to south and divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres?