Introduction to Geography
What is the study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on Earth called?
What is Geography
This African river is the longest in the world, running over 4,000 miles.
What is the Nile River?
This term refers to the belief in a single god.
What is monotheism?
This is the study of how space on Earth is divided and controlled by political power.
What is political geography?
This term describes the statistical study of human populations.
What is demography?
This describes a place in comparison to other places around it.
What is relative location?
This desert, the world’s largest, covers much of Northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This religion, which includes the caste system, began in South Asia and is one of the oldest in the world.
What is Hinduism?
A nation without a sovereign state of its own is known by this term.
What is a stateless nation?
This tool is used to take a snapshot of a population's size and characteristics, usually done every 10 years in the United States.
What is a census?
These are the five themes of geography.
What are location, place, region, human-environment interaction, and movement?
This South American mountain range is the longest in the world and home to Machu Picchu.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This belief system from China emphasizes respect for elders and education.
What is Confucianism?
This region of China has its own legal and economic systems separate from mainland China.
What is Hong Kong?
This graphic tool shows the age and gender distribution of a population.
What is a population pyramid?
This line divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
These mountain ranges form the highest peaks in Africa and are known as non-active volcanoes.
What are Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya?
This set of central teachings, including prayer and pilgrimage to Mecca, is a key part of Islam.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
This 1961 treaty ensures that this continent is used only for peaceful and scientific purposes.
What is the Antarctic Treaty?
This term describes when people move within the boundaries of their own country.
What is internal migration?
These two coordinate lines are used to measure absolute location.
What are latitude and longitude?
This body of water, the largest enclosed basin in the world, sits between Europe and Asia.
What is the Caspian Sea?
This term describes how cultural practices and beliefs about gender and race shape and are shaped by their environment.
What is cultural landscape?
This term describes groups within a country that seek independence or autonomy.
What are separatist movements?
This model explains the stages of population change over time, including stages with high birth and death rates.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?