Intro/5 Themes of Geography
Examining landforms and geological processes.
What is Physical Geography?
The place of origin for a cultural trend.
the total number of people in a given area.
What is Population?
The most accurate representation of the Earth
What is a Globe?
The different shapes that make up land on the Earth's surface
What are Landforms?
Location, Place, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction and Regions
What are the 5 Themes of Geography
the government controls all aspects of the economy
What is a Command Economy?
The rate of live births per year per 1,000 people.
What is Birth Rate?
Shows the cardinal directions
What is the Compass Rose?
Water is continuously cycled between the atmosphere, surface water, and underground.
What is the Water Cycle? (Hydrologic Cycle)
Absolute and Relative. Answers the question "Where is it?"
What is Location?
One person rules with almost unlimited power.
What is a Dictator?
the beliefs, customs, values, and symbols that are passed down from one generation to the next.
Shows symbols and their meanings
What is a Map key/Legend?
What are glaciers?
The way humans modify and interaction with their environment
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
People vote to determine their laws and government.
What is a Democracy?
The spread of Culture from one place to another.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
Shows Earth's physical features
What is a Physical Map?
a large geographic area that has similar temperature, precipitation.
What is a Climate Zone?
areas with shared characteristics that set them apart from other places.
What is region?
No government interference with the economic system of a nation.
How societies produce, distribute, and consumes goods and services.
What are Economic Systems?
0 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitude
What is the Equator and Prime Meridian?
The condensation of water from vapor to droplets which then attach to dust particles.
What are clouds?