5 Themes
Migration is people moving from one area to another and immigration is people moving from one country to another.
What is the difference between migration and immigration?
The cardinal directions are north, south, east, and west. The intermediate directions are northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast.
What is the difference between cardinal and intermediate directions?
Divides the Earth into the East and West Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A type of government with low citizen participation.
What is an autocracy/oligarchy?
Imports are products made in another country and brought into your country. Exports are products made in your country and shipped to another country.
What is the difference between imports and exports?
Absolute location is the exact place on Earth using latitude and longitude and relative location is the location of a place in relation to another place.
What is the difference between absolute and relative location?
A type of map that shows mountains and rivers.
What is a physical map?
Line of latitude that circles the Earth at its widest point.
What is the equator?
A type of government that shares power between the central and regional authorities.
What is a federation?
Human resources are skills people have, natural resources are found in nature, and capital resources are things people make.
What is the difference between human, natural, and capital resources?
Location, Place, Region, Movement, and Human-Environment Interaction.
What are the 5 Themes of Geography?
A type of map that shows state boundaries.
What is a political map?
Another name for a line of longitude.
What is a meridian?
A type of government where regional authorities have the most power.
What is a confederation?
A type of economic system where the government owns all industry.
What is a command economy?
Push is negative factors that push someone away from an area and pull is positive factors that draw someone toward a new area.
How does the "Push-Pull Theory" impact migration and immigration?
A type of map that shows population or climate.
What is a thematic map?
Another name for a line of latitude.
What is a parallel?
A type of government where the head of the executive branch is elected by the people.
What is a Presidential Democracy?
A type of economic system where businesses are privately owned.
What is a market economy?
A group of places that have shared characteristics.
What is a region?
A symbol that shows the cardinal and intermediate directions.
What is a compass rose?
Absolute location.
What are lines of latitude and longitude used to measure?
A type of government where the head of the executive branch is chosen directly from the legislature.
What is a Parliamentary Democracy?
The price of a good rises or falls depending on how many people want it or the amount available.
What is supply and demand?