Intro to Geography
This tool provides real-time navigation based on satellite signals.
What is a global positioning system (GPS)?
This theme explaining where a place is on Earth using latitude and longitude or by telling where a place is in relation to another place.
What is Location ?
The religion that centers on the Five Pillars, including daily prayer and acts of charity.
What is Islam?
What are agriculture and tourism?
The overuse and depletion of nutrients, leaving soil unable to support plant life is known as _________ ____________.
What is soil exhaustion?
_____________is used to collect spatial data for analysis, such as tracking disease outbreaks.
What is a global information system (GIS)?
This theme focuses on how people, goods, and ideas are transferred around the Earth.
What is Movement?
This regional belt in the U.S. is characterized by warmer climates and a strong economy which attracts people from other parts of the country. (Choose: Sun belt or Rust Belt)
What is the Sun Belt?
These floating gardens were used by the Aztecs to make use of their limited space.
What are chinampas?
Beliefs and concepts of time are likely to appear ___________ (Choose: above or below) the surface according to the Cultural Iceberg Theory.
What is below the surface?
This type of map that shows physical features such as mountains, rivers, and lakes
A physical map
This theme defines as an areas based on its unifying characteristics.
What is Region?
True or False: gentrification brings investment to neighborhoods, it often results in cultural homogenization and the displacement of lower-income populations.
What is true?
Areas in Brazil with poor infrastructure and lack of basic services are known as ________________.
What are favelas?
These three factors influence population size and growth.
What are birth rate, death rate, and migration?
This type of map focuses on specific topics like climate zones or economic activity.
What is a thematic map?
This geographic theme uses human and physical characteristics to define a location.
What is Place?
The ____________ economic sector that focuses on using natural resources directly from the Earth.
What is the primary sector?
The supranational organization the encourages economic cooperation and free trade among member nations is known as ___________________.
What is Mercosur?
This effect is when moist air is forced to rise over a mountain range, causing it to cool and drop most of its moisture as precipitation on the windward side, leaving the leeward side with significantly less rain.
What is the rain shadow effect?
These imaginary lines measure distances north or south of the Equator.
What are lines of latitude?
This geographic theme explains how people adapt to, change , or modify their environment.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
The approach to multiculturalism that allows diverse cultures to maintain their unique identities while coexisting.
What is the Salad Bowl Theory?
The sudden and violent overthrow of a government, often by a small group is called a _____________.
What is a coup?
DAILY DOUBLE: When it comes to multiculturalism ___________has a "salad bowl" approach, while ____________ encourages a "melting pot" of cultures.
Choose from: Countries in N. America not including Mexico. In the correct order!
What is Canada-salad bowl and the U.S- melting pot ?