Measures degrees east and west
The 5 themes of geography
What is MR LIP?
Movement, Region, Location, Interaction Place
What is a social group?
Three types of industry
What are primary, secondary, and tertiary industries?
The three types of landforms
What are mountains, plains, and plateaus?
Imaginary lines of latitude that run parallel to the equator
What are parallels?
Describe relative location
What is describing a location in terms of the things around it?
5 themes of culture
Turning milk into cheese (industry)
What is a secondary industry?
Rivers that feed into other rivers
Name of the line of longitude that is 0 degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The physical and human characteristics of a location
What is place?
Spanish architecture is an example of ________________
What is aesthetics?
Costco (what industry)
What are the Great Lakes of North America?
What is the cylindrical projection?
Includes natural borders like mountains and borders that have been decided in political negotiations
What is region?
What is physical environment?
Industry that is the most economically important
What is mining?
World's largest lake by volume and area
What is the Caspian Sea?
Projection that causes accuracy in the center, but increasingly becomes more distorted towards the edges
What is the Azimuthal Projection?
Both social media and trains can be an example of this.
What is movement?
The FBI is an example of _____________
What is an institution?
Farming to produce enough for yourself/family
What is subsistence farming?
The three types of Plateaus & where they are located
What is a...
1. Piedmont- the base of a mountain range
2. Intermountain- in between mountain ranges
3. Continental- a plateau that spans a large area