Describes how people impact the environment and how the environment responds.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
100
Describes what the map is showing or the style of the map.
What is a Map Title?
100
Farming; includes growing crops and raising livestock.
What is agriculture?
100
The system that establishes and enforces the laws and institutions of a society; some governments are controlled by a few people, and others are controlled by many.
What is government?
100
A theory of government in which all property and business is owned by the government.
What is communism?
200
Describes how people, goods and ideas get from one place to another.
What is movement?
200
The section of a map that explains the symbols for the map features.
What is the Key or Legend?
200
A process by which water, wind, or ice wears away landforms and carries the material to another place.
What is erosion?
200
A system of government in which the people participate directly in decision making. This system involves the maximum number of people in final decision making.
What is direct democracy?
200
An economic system in which businesses are owned privately by the people.
What is capitalism?
300
A group of places with a unifying characteristic such as climate, land, population or history.
What is Region?
300
Can be used by to find an exact location spot on a map.
What is Grid, or Latitude and Longitude?
300
The theory that Earth’s crust is made of huge, slowly moving slabs of rock called plates.
What is Plate Tectonics?
300
This writer, from Italy, wrote, "It is better for a prince to be feared than loved, but never should a prince be hated."
Who is Machiavelli?
300
An economic system in which the government owns some basic industries, but allows private ownership of various businesses.
What is socialism?
400
The Physical and Human characteristics and make an area unique.
What is Place?
400
North, South, East and West
What are the Cardinal Directions?
400
A misrepresentation of the true shape; each map projection used by a cartographer produces some distortion.
What is distortion?
400
A system of government in which the people elect representatives to run the affairs of the country.
What is Representative Democracy?
400
A system for producing, distributing, consuming, and owning goods, services and wealth.
What is economy?
500
One describes the exact spot on Earth, using Latitude and Longitude, but the other describes a spot on Earth by describing what it is near.
What are Absolute and Relative Locations?
500
The size of an area on a map as compared with the area’s actual size.
What is a scale?
500
The process of accepting, burrowing, and exchanging ideas and traits among cultures.
What is acculturation?
500
This word means "dominant idea" in a society or culture
What is hegemonic construct?
500
What does the word "economy" mean in ancient Greek?
What are "habits of the house" or "customs of the house"?