Unit 1 - Foundations of World Geography
This person studies the past
Who is a historian?
Symbols such as small black circles, dots, arrows, etc... This text feature is used to organize information into a list or to emphasize key points.
What are bullet points?
A large sea wave caused by an earthquake, landslide, or other disturbance under the ocean
What is a tsunami?
A large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain or over land
List 5 push factors
What are war, persecution, poverty, no jobs, natural disasters?
A person who draws or produces maps; they also study maps
Who is a cartographer?
An alphabetical list of new or important words. This text feature tells the meanings of words.
What is a glossary?
The line of longitude measured at 0 degrees and runs from the North Pole to the South Pole
Body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsuala?
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster
What is a refugee?
The five themes of geography
What are location, place, human environment interaction, movement, and regions?
A visual representation that tells the order of events that took place in a person's life or in history. This feature helps readers understand the order of events and how one event may have led to another.
What is a timeline?
The specific location of a place
What is absolute location?
A spot of fertile land in a desert, supplied with water by a natural spring
What is an oasis?
List the top three most populated countries in order
What are India, China, and the United States?
Computer or internet based mapping technology
What is Global Information Systems or GIS?
A picture that shows the inside of something or the inner layers. This feature helps the reader understand something by looking at it from the inside which is not usually visible.
What is a cross section?
The difference between a map and a globe - must list multiple differences
Map - 2D, more practical, and not perfectly accurate
Globe - 3D, actual model, difficult to carry
Another name for a waterfall
What is a cataract?
The number of people in a defined area such as a square mile
What is population density?
Three different examples of map projections
**Must list 2/3 to get full points**
What are the Mercator Projection, Peters Projection, and Robinson Projection?
An alphabetical listing of key words and topics along with their page numbers. This feature helps readers find pages that contain information they are looking for
What is an index?
Two other factors besides latitude that affect the climate of a region
**Must list one to get full points**
What is large bodies of water and elevation?
A broad flat area of land higher than the surrounding area
What is a plataeu?
The periodic count of a nation's population by its government
What is a census?