Physical Geography
This theme of geography describes where places are at on earth.
What is location?
The first thing to do when reading a map is to look for this.
What is a title?
The average weather over many years.
What is Climate?
A system in which people make, exchange, and use things that have value.
What is an Economy?
The combination of human knowledge, beliefs and behaviors that we learn and pass on to future generations
What is culture?
This theme of geography shows how people and the environment are interconnected.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This type of map shows the boundaries of countries.
What is Political Maps?
A factor that influences climate based upon height above or below sea level.
What is elevation?
An Organization that sets up and enforces laws
What is Government?
A part of culture that is necessary to help preserve and spread beliefs.
What is Language?
This landform is created when magma pushes against the surface of the earth but does not break through.
What is a plateau?
This type of map shows information about natural resources.
What is Economic or Resource maps?
The type of climate found in Indiana.
What is Temperate Continental?
Traditional, Command, Market, and Mixed are all examples of this thing.
What is an Economic System
The movement of customs and ideas.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
This landform is created when two tectonic plates push up against each other.
What is a mountain?
This type of map shows the precipitation of a region.
What is a climate map?
A type of climate that often has a short rainy season and a long dry season.
What is Tropical Wet/Dry?
A Government that is controlled by a small group of people.
What is an Oligarchy?
The process of accepting new ideas and fitting them into a culture
What is acculturation?
This type of location will never change.
What is absolute location?
These often pinpoint an exact location on a map.
What are latitude and longitude?
This type of ocean current heavily affects climate in Asia.
What is a monsoon?
Countries take advantage of other's strengths, resources, and abilities when they participate in this activity.
What is trade?
The tendency to view your own culture as being better than others.
What is Ethnocentrism