Geographic Concepts
What do geographers use to determine absolute location?
What are latitude and longitude?
How many regions are in the United States?
What is 4?
How many provinces are in Canada?
What is 10?
Name a type of government where the people have the power.
What is democracy?
This is the greatest agent of erosion
What is water?
Name one type of geographic tool and tell what it does.
What are GPS, GIS, satellites, or sonar?
The names of the regions in the United States
What are South, Northeast, Midwest, and West?
This is Canada's most important natural resource
What is the sea?
Name a type of government where kings and queens rule.
What is a monarchy?
Name the two types of weathering
What are chemical and mechanical?
When geographers talk about movement they are referring to these three things
What are people, goods, and ideas?
These nonrenewable resources are vital to the energy supply and economy of the United States.
What are coal, natural gas, and petroleum?
The two most common climate regions found in Canada
What are subarctic and tundra?
Name a type of government where one person has all the power
What is a dictatorship?
This is the reason water, forests, and wildlife are considered renewable resources.
What is constantly being replenished by the environment?
The theory that the earth's crust is made up of several plates that are constantly being pushed and pulled across earth's surface
What is plate tectonics?
This act was passed to encourage farming in the Great Plains. It granted 160 acres of land to settlers who agreed to farm.
What is the Homestead Act?
Many of the mineral deposits and oil reserves in Nunavut, the Yukon, and the Northwest territories have not been developed. What are the reason for this?
What are harsh climates and rugged terrain?
Name two examples of primary economic activities
What are hunting and gathering?
Landforms are commonly classified according to differences in this
What is relief?
The scientist who developed the continental drift theory
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Name the resources that have been vital to the economic success of the United States.
What are natural resources, innovations in transportation, innovations in communication, and respect for individual freedoms?
Name three landforms that are located in both the United States and Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains, Cascade Range, and Great Lakes?
What are lawyers, doctors, policemen, and firefighters?
These are the three factors climate depends on
What are elevation, latitude, and location in relation to landforms and bodies of water?