What is Geography?
Cartography
Climate & Geology
Demographics & Culture
Politics & Economics
100

The two primary categories of geography.

What are Physical and Human geography?

100

This is the longest line of latitude, circling the globe at 0 degrees and dividing the earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

What is the Equator?

100

This refers to temperature, precipitation, and wind during short periods of time in local regions.

What is weather?

100

True or false: All countries agree on boundaries and border lands.

What is false?

100

Fill in the blank: The more authority the leaders possess, the more _______ the government is.

What is authoritarian (or autocratic)?

200

Describe why it is important to study Geography?

Humans have a direct relationship with the earth. We affect the earth and the earth affects us.

200

This map projection preserves the shape of areas.

What is Mercator?

200

This refers to the weather patterns of large regions over longer periods of time.

What is climate?

200

Refers to the study of human population, including its increases, decreases, and migrations.

What is demographics?

200

With this type of government, citizens have more input and power.

What is democratic?

300

List the oceans and continents.

What are N. America, S. America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica. Pacific O., Atlantic O., Indian O., Arctic O., and Southern O.

300

This map projection preserves size.

What is Robinson?

300

This occurs on the shortest day and longest night of the year.

What is the Winter Solstice?

300

This type of map shows the man-made borders of countries.

What is political?

300

Describe Capitalism.

A system that allows individuals to make decisions about the economy; what to produce, how to produce it, and what to do with the finished product.

400

Describe the three main categories of physical geography.

Cartography, topography, meteorology

400

This line runs north-south, circles the globe at 0 degrees, and divides the earth into Western and Eastern hemispheres.

What is the Prime Meridian?

400

Describe why we have seasons on earth.

Due to the earth's tilt, some areas of earth experience more direct sunlight than others, causing summer in some areas and winter in others.

400

The family of languages representing the MOST speakers in the world.

What is the Indo-European family?

400

Describe Socialism.

A "welfare state" system in which the government looks after the economic welfare of its citizens. Economic power is "centralized" in the government.

500

Describe the four main categories of human geography.

cultural, economic, political, historical

500

Define and describe the two ways to discuss location on a map.

Relative location: describes the location of a place in relation to another place.

Absolute location: uses latitude and longitude to give the exact location of a place.

500

These are fast moving air currents that are predictable, but can cause violent storms to erupt, if the conditions are right.

What are trade winds?

500

Describe the difference between race and ethnicity.

Race: refers largely to biological characteristics that cannot change.

Ethnicity: incorporates several features, including race, language, cultural practices, and religion. It is different from race because ethnicity is learned and CAN change.

500

The term Communism originally refers to...

What is an entire atheistic worldview that sought to set up a system in which people would hold everything in common?