Vocab 1
The study of the human and non-human features of the Earth.
What is geography?
The average weather of a place over many years.
What is climate?
This is the largest country in South America?
What is Brazil?
What is 13 total?
Is the exchange of goods and services.
What is trade?
The position north or south of the Equator.
Coal, natural gas, and petroleum and examples of this.
What is a fossil fuel?
Most South American countries were colonized by this European nation.
What is Spain?
The United States has this type of government.
What is a republic, with a presidential democracy?
The cost of what you have to give up.
What is opportunity cost?
The position east and west of the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
These are the three main parts to the water cycle.
Which early Native civilization lived in the Andes valleys in modern day Peru?
Who are the Inca?
Which nation did Canada and the U.S. gain their independence from?
What is England?
A point in which days are longest in one hemisphere and shortest in another.
What is a solstice?
A Spanish conqueror.
What is a conquistador?
These are the three main types of ecosystems.
What are forest, grassland, and cold climate?
This many countries make up South America.
What is 14 total including Falkland Island and French Guyana?
The nonexistent water way through North America that would get you from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This trade system connected North America, Africa, and the West Indies
What is the Triangular Trade?
A system in which conquerors were rewarded with the conquered people as free labor.
What is the encomienda system?
These are the three types of latitude zones.
What are tropics, temperate, and polar zones?
List all the South American Countries.
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Parauguay, Uruguay, Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela, French Guyana, and Falkland Islands
What are the two elements of citizenship?
What are rights and responsibilities?
The second part of the three nation trade system that brought enslaved African people to North America.
What is the Middle Passage?