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People
Economy
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Nature
History & Government
100
Increase in the percentage of people living in cities.
What is Urbanization
100
Ways in which a society satisfies basic needs through the production and distribution of goods and services.
What are Economic Systems?
100
Instruments used to collect, organize, store, or display geographic information.
What are Geographic Tools?
100
Actions of nature that change the physical environment.
What are Physical Processes?
100
Analysis of how geography has affected historic events and how places, environments, and cultures have changed over time.
What is Understanding the Past?
200
Increase in the number of people in a specific area.
What is Population Growth?
200
The lines on a map that run North to South.
What are Lines of Longitude?
200
Uses technology to collect, manipulate, analyze, and display data about the earth's surface in order to solve geographic problems.
What is GIS, or Geographic Information System?
200
Networks of plants and animals interacting with the environment.
What are Ecosystems?
200
Methods used by countries and organizations to pursue goals, such as maintaining or expanding control over territory.
What are Cooperation and Conflict?
300
Distribution of populations among urban and rural communities.
What are Patterns of Settlement?
300
Global networks for exchanging goods and services.
What are Global Trade Patterns?
300
Discoveries and inventions that help people change or adapt to their environment.
What is Science and Technology?
300
Regional long term trends in weather and atmospheric conditions.
What are Climates?
300
Use of geographic knowledge and skills to analyze problems and make decisions that affect the future.
What is Planning for the Future?
400
Movement of people, often influenced by push-and-pull factors.
What is Migration?
400
The lines on a globe that run west to east.
What are Lines of Latitude?
400
Greek word that means "writing about" or "describing" the earth.
What is Geography?
400
Features of the Earth's surface, such as landforms, water systems, climate patterns, and plant and animal life.
What are Physical Characteristics?
400
How different viewpoints influence political decisions, divisions and policies connected to geographic issues.
What is Government and Citizenship?
500
Learned behavior of people, including their belief systems, languages, governments, and material goods.
What are Cultures?
500
Use of natural resources, production of goods, provision of services, and distribution of information.
What are Economic Activities?
500
Used to describe a place's position on the globe.
What is Absolute Location?
500
Natural events in the physical environment that are destructive, such as volcanoes and hurricanes.
What are Natural Hazards?
500
Any part of the natural environment that people need and value.
What are Natural Resources?