Ch 1
Name given to people who study places and the inhabitants of those places
What is a geographer?
Average condition of the atmosphere over a period of time
What is climate?
Ancient civilization that created a Mexican empire through military conquest
Who are the Aztecs?
Holiday in Mexico that honors a persons' ancestors
What is Day of the Dead?
Removal of trees
What is deforestation?
Theme of geography that explains how people, ideas, and animals get from one place to another
What is movement?
These cause weather changes
What are air masses?
Conquered the Aztec leader Montezuma
Who is Cortes?
Economic sector that includes automobiles, food processing, metal products, and maquiladoras
What is manufacturing?
Exchange of goods between Europe, Africa and the Americas
What is triangular trade?
The exact point where a place is found
What is absolute location?
Type of religion that worships multiple Gods
What is polytheistic?
In the early 1800s the "top" group of people who were born in Spain and held the highest offices in church and government
Who are the peninsulares?
Economic sector that includes banking transportation, and tourism
What is service?
Treaty that made Puerto Rico a territory of the US
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Divides the Northern hemisphere from the Southern hemisphere
What is the equator?
Description of governments in which citizens have little to no rights
What is unlimited?
In the early 1800s the group of people who were of Spanish background BUT born in Mexico
Who were the criollos?
Economic sector that includes tropical fruits, coffee, sugarcane, cotton, silver and oil
What is agriculture?
Landform on which most coffee in CA is grown
What are mountains?
Map element that shows the directions north, south, east, and west
What is the compass rose?
One of the religions in which the Ten Commandments serve as a code of right and wrong behavior
What is Judaism or Catholicism?
In the early 1800s the group of people who were of mixed Spanish AND native background
Who were the mestizos?
Country besides Mexico that combined to create Mexican culture
What is Africa or Spain?
Landform on which most sugarcane is grown in CA
What are the coastal plains?