🌍 Geography Basics
This theme of geography refers to the relationship seen in structures like the Hoover Dam.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
Degrees north or south of the Equator measure this.
What is Latitude?
Farming and mining belong to this sector of the economy.
What is the Primary sector?
This index measures development by considering wealth, education, and life expectancy.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
Solar power is an example of this type of energy resource.
What is renewable energy?
This term means the exact location of a place on Earth’s surface using a coordinate system.
What is Absolute location?
These lines run parallel to the Equator.
What are Latitude lines?
This measure counts the total value of goods and services produced inside a country’s borders.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
According to Wallerstein, these countries are used for raw materials and cheap labor.
What are Periphery countries?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of this type of energy resource.
What are fossil fuels?
This concept involves recognizing similarities among different locations.
What is Region?
This feature is measured east or west of the Prime Meridian.
What is Longitude?
In Rostow’s stages, this stage represents rapid economic growth with new industries.
What is Take-off?
The Gender Inequality Index (GII) measures inequality in three areas. Name one.
What are reproductive health, empowerment, and labor?
This term describes growing global interconnection through trade and communication.
What is Globalization?
This theme describes both the human and physical character traits of a location.
What is Place?
Lines running from pole to pole are called this.
What are Meridians of longitude?
In which type of country are most people most likely to work in healthcare, sales, or education?
What is a More Developed Country (MDC)?
In Rostow’s stages, this level comes before rapid growth and involves preparing for industrialization.
What are the Preconditions for Take-off?
This fossil fuel is the most widely used source of energy in the world today.
What is oil (petroleum)?
This theme of geography examines how people, goods, and ideas move from one location to another.
What is Movement?
This coordinate term describes a place’s location in relation to another place.
What is Relative location?
This practice moves production to another country to save on labor costs.
What is Outsourcing?
According to World Systems Theory, these countries act as a bridge between core and periphery.
What are Semi-periphery countries?
This international agreement was designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
What is the Paris Agreement?