Basic Skills
The Bible Belt, the Middle East, and Appalachia are examples of these...
What is a region?
This causes day and night.
What is the rotation of the Earth on its axis?
This the most populated country in the world, and has until recently, limited most people to one child.
What is China?
This is the percentage of people who can read and write in a country.
What is the literacy rate?
These are the 2 longest rivers in the US
What are the Mississippi and Missouri?
The part of the map that shows what symbols mean.
What is the legend or key?
Number of degrees the earth rotates in 1 hour
What is 15
Current approximate population of the United States:
What is 330 million?
The ratio that compares the working age population with those too young or too old to work.
What is dependency ratio?
River of major importance to the American Southwest....the Hoover Dam is built on it.
What is the Colorado?
The maximum number of degrees possible with latitude.
What is 90?
This effect causes the windward side of some mountains to be wet, while the leeward side is very dry or desert-like.
What is the Rainshadow or Orographic Effect?
Current world population:
What is 7.6 billion?
This measure of economic development is found by dividing the total value of goods and services produced in a year by the country’s population.
What is per capita income (GDP or GNP)?
The highest point in North America/United States:
What is Denali or Mt. McKinley?
Number of degrees the Earth is tilted on its axis
What is 23.5?
Morehead, KY and New York City are in this time zone.
What is Eastern
This type of population growth is common in less developed countries like Ethiopia, Haiti, or Afghanistan.
What is rapid growth?
This is 2.1 in developed nations.
What is the replacement rate?
Name of the Desert where Death Valley is located in California.
What is the Mojave?
The 5 themes of geography
What are: Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region?
You leave NY at 5 pm. It's a 6 hour flight to Los Angeles, CA. What time will it be in LA when you arrive?
8 pm
This has dropped significantly in countries like Japan, Germany, and Italy where social roles and employment patterns of women have changed in recent years.
What is total fertility rate or birth rate?
Countries receive a score between 0 and 1 on this rating, calculated by the UN each year:
What is the Human Development Index or HDI?
Name all 5 Great Lakes:
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?