Unit 1
What are the 5 themes of Geography?
What is Location, Place, Region, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction
Give an example of a human resource
What is a teacher, doctor, welder, fastfood worker, miner, engineer, etc
What is Mexico
Where is the Hudson Bay located?
What is Canada
True or False: Africa is located on both sides of the equator?
What is True
What is a primary source?
What is a first-hand or eyewitness account of an event from the time in the past that is being studied
What is a primary level economic activity
What is those dealing directly with natural resources
examples: fishing, farming, mining, and forestry
Name 1 major city in Brazil
What is Sao Paulo, Brasilla, or Rio de Janeiro
Is the United States and Canada developed or developing?
What is Developed
What region of Africa is also known as the "Horn of Africa"
What are the 3 types of maps
What is Political, Physical, and Thematic
What is interdependence?
What is countries have to rely on each other to be economically successful
What is subsistence farming?
What is the Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean
Why did Europeans colonize Africa?
What is so they could control the raw materials
What is the difference between a large scale map and a small scale map?
What is large scale maps depict smaller areas (more zoomed in) and small scale maps depict larger areas (more zoomed out)
What is one factor that influences population density?
What is Access to resources OR Climate OR Economic development OR Government policies: (taxes, laws, available services) OR Conflict: like wars or disputes
What is a squatter settlement?
What is informal neighborhoods on the outskirts
What are Polders?
What is areas of land reclaimed from the sea in the Netherlands
How is history and tradition passed down in Sub-Saharan Africa?
What is through oral traditions OR through Griots
Name 1 vegetation zone for each latitude zone
- Low latitude
- Middle latitude
- High latitude
- Low: Tropical rainforest, desert, savanna
- Middle: Desert, temperate forest, steppe
- High: Taiga, tundra
What is the difference between site and situation?
What is site is the physical location of a city (WHERE it is), situation the location of a city in relationship to other geographic features (WHAT is there)
What languages were brought to Latin America from Europe?
What is Spanish and Portuguese
What is the purpose of the European Union?
What is allows free movement of goods, capital, services and people between members; promotes peace and collaboration
Why is Cape Town important?