Location, Place, Human Environmental Interaction, Movement, and Region
100
What are the actions and beliefs that define a group called?
Culture
100
What are the major physical features of the United States?
Mountains, forests, Great Lakes, rivers and oceans
100
What impacts do natural disasters have on Latin America?
Impacts of natural disasters include: fatalities, injuries, sickness, and violence.
100
What is another name for mountains, plateaus, hills, and plains?
Landforms
200
What is the exact location of a place?
Absolute Location
200
What is the average number of people in a square mile?
Population density
200
What are the major features of Canada?
Coastal plains, prairies, forests, Great Lakes, and Archipelago
200
What are the main reasons why Latin America is known as Latin America?
Because of the language, religion, and traditions of the region.
200
What two economic activities do western natural resources support?
forestry and commercial fishing
300
What are parallel lines that measure distances north and south called? Example: Equatorlines of latitude
lines of latitude
300
What is a place where important ideas begin to move and spread to surrounding cultures called?
Example: ideas and traditions
Cultural hearth
300
How has Canada's investment in communication helped to unite northern Canada with the rest of Canada?
People in northern territories can communicate via telephone and internet
300
What are the reasons deforestation has affected Latin America?
Products such as land, lumber, paper, cattle (from cleared land) and minerals are obtained from the forest regions of Latin America
Examples: Slash and Burn
300
What are the sonar, satellite, GPS and GIS in terms of geography?
Tools of technology used by geographers
400
What are vetical lines that measure distances east and west called? Example: Prime Meridian
lines of longitude
400
How do physical characteristics like mountains, climate, and bodies of water influence culture?
People adapt to their environment in industry, travel, and clothing; even the foods they eat.
400
Why are the regions of Canada more distinct than those of the United States?
The regions of Canada are more distinct because of the extreme changes in climate and physical features of Canada.
400
What major ethnic groups live in Latin America?
Native Americans, Whites, African Americans and Asians
400
What part of the environment do forests, grasslands, deserts, and tundras affect?
The ecosystem
500
What is the study of people, places and things and how they relate to one another?
Geography
500
What has caused population growth?
People live longer due to modern technology: medical care and increased food production
500
How did the physical geography of the United States contribute to growth and development?
Canals transported crops; railroads transported goods long distances and through mountains; wide rivers allow for transport and fishing; automobiles allowed people to circumvent mountains and travel over long expanses of land