What is urbanization?

The growth of city populations caused by the movement of people to cities

What is the system of government constitutional monarchy?

Where a king or queen is the head of state but has limited powers, ex; U.K.

What is the Prime Meridian?

Imaginary line that runs North to South, Used as a refernce point to measure east and west longitudes

What is a fossil fuel?

A nonrenewable resource created from the remains of plants and animals, Any one of several nonrenewable resources such as coal, oil, or natural gas

What are goods (geography terminology)?

Products that are made; objects that can satisfy people's wants

What is a nonrenewable resource?

Resource that can be regenerated if used carefully, such as timber or fish

Finish the sentence; Communism is an economic system and theory of government in which...

all basic and non-basic industries are owned by a central government

What is a raw material?

Resource/material before being processed/manufactured into a useful product

Finish the sentence; Capitalism is an economic system in which...

people & privately owned companies own (non-)basic businesses & industries

What is the compass rose?

A map feature that usually shows the four cardinal directions

What does the term region meam in geography?

An area with characteristics such as climate, land, population, or history

What are longitude lines?

Imaginary lines (aka meridians, pecause parrelel to Prime Meridian), measure the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian in degrees.

The study of the Earth, and how people interact with their enviroment.

What is population distribution?

How a population is spread over an area

What is precipitation?

Rain, sleet, hail, and snow, that fall to the ground from the atmosphere

What are middle latitudes (temperate zones)?

The regions between Tropic of Cancer, Artic Circle, & Antartic Circle

Farming; includes growing crops and raising livestock

What is absolute location?

The exact position of a place on Earth. (Longitude and latitude)

System that establishes and enforces the laws and institutions of a society

What are latitude lines?

measure a distance north or south of the Equator in degrees, Imaginary lines,(aka parallels, because parrellel to Equater)

What is the system of government monarchy?

System headed by a monarch, often king/queen-inherited the throne by birth

What is a human-environment interaction?

How people affect their environment and how the environment affects them.

What are capital goods?

Man-made resources needed to produce goods or services like machinery/tools

What is relative location?

The location of a place as described by the places near it.

Movement of people from one place to another in order to stay temporarily

What is an urban area?

An area with high population density, such as a city or town

Cold and cool regions where only certain plants can grow

What is commercial farming?

Farming done by companies; farms that are large and use modern technology, also, the raising of crops and livestock for sale in outside markets

Language, religious beliefs, values, customs, and skills, Ways of life shared by a group of people

What is a developed nation?

A country with a modern industrial society and a well developed economy

What is a recyclable resource (flow resource)?

Cycles through natural processes in the environment; water/carbon/nitrogen

What is a suburban area?

A usually residential area close to a city

What is population density?

The average number of people in a given area (often a square mile, ppsm)

What is a pull factor?

A social, political, economic, or environmental factor, A factor that attracts people from previous locations

What is a push factor?

A social, political, economic, or environmental factor, A factor that drives people away from a specific location

What is a cultural product?

A tangible or intangible product of a cultural group

What is a human characteristic (feature)?

Characteristics of a place that are related to people (buildings or parks)., The manmade feature of Earth, such as apartment complexes or restaurants.

What is the system of government representative democracy (republic)?

Where people elect representatives to run the affairs of the country

A hot fluid in the volcano, is the form before lava.

What is the standard of living?

Quality of life, measured by education, housing, health care, & nutrition

What is place* (in geography terms)?

A location's physical and human features.

What does incentive mean?

Something to encourage/persuade people to do somehting

What is acculturation?

Process of accepting/borrowing/exchanging ideas and traits among cultures

What is a physical feature (characteristic)?

The natural features of Earth, such as land formations or vegetation zones.

What is an immigrant?

A person who moves to a new country in order to settle there

What is the system of government dictatorship?

Where the leader has total power, no effective constitutional limitations

What are high latitudes (polar zones)?

Regions between Arctic Circle & North Pole, & Antarctic Circle & South Pole

What is deforestation?

Usually to make room for farms and homes, The process of clearing land of forests or trees

What is vertical climate?

Weather patterns of a region as influenced by elevation; gets colder higher

The section of a map that explains the symbols for the map features.

What is social structure?

How groups within a culture are seperated into groups that each have a task

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1
What is urbanization?
A usually residential area close to a city
An area with low population density such as a village or the countryside
An area with high population density, such as a city or town
The growth of city populations caused by the movement of people to cities
2
What is the system of government constitutional monarchy?
Where people elect representatives to run the affairs of the country
Where a king or queen is the head of state but has limited powers, ex; U.K.
System headed by a monarch, often king/queen-inherited the throne by birth
Where the leader has total power, no effective constitutional limitations
3
What is the Prime Meridian?
Imaginary line that runs North to South
Used as a refernce point to measure east and west longitudes
Used as reference point to measure north and south latitudes
Imaginary line that splits the globe into two equal sections (hemispheres).
4
What is a fossil fuel?
A nonrenewable resource created from the remains of plants and animals
A renewable resource created from the remains of plants and animals
Any one of several renewable resources such as timber or fish
Any one of several nonrenewable resources such as coal, oil, or natural gas
5
What are goods (geography terminology)?
A person who buys goods or services
A plant, that obsorbs solar energy to make food. Is then eaten by consumers
A person who makes products that are used by other people
Products that are made; objects that can satisfy people's wants
6
What is a nonrenewable resource?
Supply of money/material/staff that can be drawn by a person/organization
Resource that can be regenerated if used carefully, such as timber or fish
Resource that cannot be replaced once it is used; ex: oil, coal, & minerals
Cycles through natural processes in the environment; water/carbon/nitrogen
7
Finish the sentence; Communism is an economic system and theory of government in which...
the government owns non-basic industries; but not basic industries
the government owns basic industries; but not non-basic indutries
all basic and non-basic industries are owned by a central government
people & privately owned companies own (non-)basic businesses & industries
8
What is a raw material?
Resource/material before being processed/manufactured into a useful product
Any useful material found in the environment
Resource/material after being processed/manufactured into a useful product
A material/resource found in the enviroment that is not useful in any way
9
Finish the sentence; Capitalism is an economic system in which...
people & privately owned companies own (non-)basic businesses & industries
the government owns non-basic industries; but not basic industries
all basic and non-basic industries are owned by a central government
the government owns basic industries; but not non-basic indutries
10
What is the compass rose?
The section of a map that explains the symbols for the map features.
The points of the compass that fall between each set of cardinal directions
A map feature that usually shows the four cardinal directions
The four main compass points: north, south, east, and west.
11
What does the term region meam in geography?
A location's physical and human features, like mountains and ampartments
An area with characteristics such as climate, land, population, or history
The place where a particular point or object exists
It that explains how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another
12
What are longitude lines?
Imaginary lines,(aka parallels, because parrellel to Equater)
Imaginary lines (aka meridians, pecause parrelel to Prime Meridian)
measure the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian in degrees.
measure a distance north or south of the Equator in degrees
13
What is geography?
The study of the Earth, and how people interact with their enviroment.
The study of how to make technology more advanced, and helpful.
The study of how man made chemicals interact with the climate conditions.
The study of plants and animals on earth.
14
What is population distribution?
People living in a certain area; mainly total number of people in that area
The average number of people in a given area (often a square mile, ppsm)
How a population is spread over an area
Quality of life, measured by education, housing, health care, & nutrition
15
What is precipitation?
What happens in the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere over a short time
Weather patterns that an area experiences over a long period of time
Rain, sleet, hail, and snow, that fall to the ground from the atmosphere
when mother nature has to pee! Oh noo...get inside, before we drown :0!
16
What are middle latitudes (temperate zones)?
Regions between Arctic Circle & North Pole, & Antarctic Circle & South Pole
The regions between the Prime Meridian and the Equater
The region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
The regions between Tropic of Cancer, Artic Circle, & Antartic Circle
17
What is argiculture?
Work: great big cities with tons of workers
Dancing: dancing with anyone possible
Farming; includes growing crops and raising livestock
Food: All types of food from all types of places
18
What is absolute location?
The location of a place as described by the things within it.
The location of a place as described by the places near it.
The exact position of a place on Earth. (Longitude and latitude)
The exact position of a place on Earth. (Address)
19
What is government?
System that creates complete disorder and confusion for society
System that only applies to some poeple, but is VERY restrictive
System that establishes and enforces the laws and institutions of a society
System that creates violent/damaging disorder for certain poeple in society
20
What are latitude lines?
measure a distance north or south of the Equator in degrees
measure the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian in degrees.
Imaginary lines,(aka parallels, because parrellel to Equater)
Imaginary lines (aka meridians, pecause parrelel to Prime Meridian)
21
What is the system of government monarchy?
System headed by a monarch, often king/queen-inherited the throne by birth
Where people elect representatives to run the affairs of the country
Where a king or queen is the head of state but has limited powers, ex; U.K.
Where the leader has total power, no effective constitutional limitations
22
What is a human-environment interaction?
The natural features of Earth, such as land formations or vegetation zones.
How people affect their environment and how the environment affects them.
Characteristics of a place that are related to people (buildings or parks).
The manmade feature of Earth, such as apartment complexes or restaurants.
23
What are capital goods?
Physical desire that can be fulfilled by recieving goods and/or services
Work/duties done for other; actions that can satisfying people's wants.
Man-made resources needed to produce goods or services like machinery/tools
Something that someone has to have in order to survive (water/food/shelter)
24
What is relative location?
The location of a place as described by the things within it.
The exact position of a place on Earth. (Address)
The location of a place as described by the places near it.
The exact position of a place on Earth. (Longitude and latitude)
25
What is migration?
Movement of people from one place to another in order to stay temporarily
Movemen of poeple from one place to another in order to stay a long time
A person who moves to a new country in order to settle there
We you travel to your friend's house who lives a block away (same region)
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What is an urban area?
A usually residential area close to a city
The growth of city populations caused by the movement of people to cities
An area with low population density such as a village or the countryside
An area with high population density, such as a city or town
27
What is tundra?
Warm and humid regions where only certain plants can grow
Cold and cool regions where only certain plants can grow
Hot and warm regions where many species of plants can grow
Cool and cloudy regions where an abundance of plants can grow
28
What is commercial farming?
Farming where they produces crops and other edable plants
Farming providing only enough food and animals for a family or village
Farming done by companies; farms that are large and use modern technology
also, the raising of crops and livestock for sale in outside markets
29
What is culture?
Language, religious beliefs, values, customs, and skills
Behaviors of a group of people that is passed from generation to generation
Ways of life shared by a group of people
A tangible or intangible product of a cultural group
30
What is a developed nation?
A country with low famring industries, and often lacking good markets
A country with low industrial production, often lacking modern technology
A country with a modern industrial society and a well developed economy
A country with a modern farming industry, and a well developed markets
31
What is a recyclable resource (flow resource)?
Resource that can be regenerated if used carefully, such as timber or fish
Resource that cannot be replaced once it is used; ex: oil, coal, & minerals
Cycles through natural processes in the environment; water/carbon/nitrogen
Supply of money/material/staff that can be drawn by a person/organization
32
What is a suburban area?
A usually residential area close to a city
The growth of city populations caused by the movement of people to cities
An area with low population density such as a village or the countryside
An area with high population density, such as a city or town
33
What is population density?
The average number of people in a given area (often a square mile, ppsm)
People living in a certain area; mainly total number of people in that area
How a population is spread over an area
Quality of life, measured by education, housing, health care, & nutrition
34
What is a pull factor?
A social, political, economic, or environmental factor
A factor that drives people away from a specific location
Theory saying that popele migrate because factors "push" or "pull" them to.
A factor that attracts people from previous locations
35
What is a push factor?
A social, political, economic, or environmental factor
Theory saying that popele migrate because factors "push" or "pull" them to.
A factor that attracts people from previous locations
A factor that drives people away from a specific location
36
What is a cultural product?
Behaviors of a group of people that is passed from generation to generation
Language, religious beliefs, values, customs, and skills
Ways of life shared by a group of people
A tangible or intangible product of a cultural group
37
What is a human characteristic (feature)?
How people affect their environment and how the environment affects them.
Characteristics of a place that are related to people (buildings or parks).
The natural features of Earth, such as land formations or vegetation zones.
The manmade feature of Earth, such as apartment complexes or restaurants.
38
What is the system of government representative democracy (republic)?
System headed by a monarch, often king/queen-inherited the throne by birth
Where a king or queen is the head of state but has limited powers, ex; U.K.
Where the leader has total power, no effective constitutional limitations
Where people elect representatives to run the affairs of the country
39
What is magma?
A hot fluid in the volcano, is the form before lava.
Magma is your mom
Sedimentary rocks, just the common name for them
it is another word for ice
40
What is the standard of living?
Quality of life, measured by education, housing, health care, & nutrition
How a population is spread over an area
People living in a certain area; mainly total number of people in that area
The average number of people in a given area (often a square mile, ppsm)
41
What is place* (in geography terms)?
Any place that has one or more natural characteristics.
Somewhere where there is air conditioner...duhh.
A location's physical and human features.
Any place on Earth that has at least some sort of population.
42
What does incentive mean?
Farming that is done by companies
Potato
Discouraging factors
Something to encourage/persuade people to do somehting
43
What is acculturation?
The movement of customs and ideas from one culture to another
Process of accepting/borrowing/exchanging ideas and traits among cultures
Complex set of meaning/attitude/value/idea(s) belonging to a cultural group
Traditions & customs of a culture passed down from generation to generation
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What is a physical feature (characteristic)?
How people affect their environment and how the environment affects them.
The manmade feature of Earth, such as apartment complexes or restaurants.
Characteristics of a place that are related to people (buildings or parks).
The natural features of Earth, such as land formations or vegetation zones.
45
What is an immigrant?
Movement of poeple from one place to another in order to settle there
A person who moves to a new country in order to settle there
We you travel to your friend's house who lives a block away (same region)
Movement of people from one place to another in order to stay temporarily
46
What is the system of government dictatorship?
Where the leader has total power, no effective constitutional limitations
Where a king or queen is the head of state but has limited powers, ex; U.K.
Where people elect representatives to run the affairs of the country
System headed by a monarch, often king/queen-inherited the throne by birth
47
What are high latitudes (polar zones)?
The region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
The regions between Tropic of Cancer, Artic Circle, & Antartic Circle
The regions between the Prime Meridian and the Equater
Regions between Arctic Circle & North Pole, & Antarctic Circle & South Pole
48
What is deforestation?
The elements of an ecosystem interact with one another
Usually to make room for farms and homes
The process of clearing land of forests or trees
Community of living things and their environment
49
What is vertical climate?
weather patterns of a region influenced by horizontal movement; colder west
Weather patterns of a region as influenced by elevation; gets colder lower
Weather patterns of a region influenced by horizontal movement; colder east
Weather patterns of a region as influenced by elevation; gets colder higher
50
What is a key?
The section of a map that explains the symbols for the map features.
The points of the compass that fall between each set of cardinal directions
A map feature that usually shows the four cardinal directions
The four main compass points: north, south, east, and west.
51
What is social structure?
How groups within a culture are seperated into groups that each have a task
How people are organized within schools, an dcompanies; often by popularity
How people are chosen to join most offical teams; mostly by intellegence
How each rank of people are organized into classes (first, second, & third)
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What is the push-pull theory?
Theory saying that popele migrate because factors "push" or "pull" them to.
A factor that drives people away from a specific location
A factor that attracts people from previous locations
A social, political, economic, or environmental factor
53
What is the definition of dense?
people or things which are crowded together
an area that contains no people or things
people or things which are not scattered not crowded together
people or things scattered out
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What is subsistence farming?
Farming done by companies; farms that are large and use modern technology
Farming providing only enough food and animals for a family or village
Farming where they produces crops and other edable plants
also, the raising of crops and livestock for sale in outside markets
55
What is a renewable resource?
Resource that cannot be replaced once it is used; ex: oil, coal, & minerals
Cycles through natural processes in the environment; water/carbon/nitrogen
Resource that can be regenerated if used carefully, such as timber or fish
Supply of money/material/staff that can be drawn by a person/organization
56
What is a consumer (geography terminology)?
A person who makes products that are used by other people
A person who buys goods or services
A plant, that obsorbs solar energy to make food. Is then eaten by consumers
Products that are made; objects that can satisfy people's wants
57
What are cardinal directions?
A map feature that usually shows the four cardinal directions
The four main compass points: north, south, east, and west.
The section of a map that explains the symbols for the map features.
The points of the compass that fall between each set of cardinal directions
58
What is manufacturing?
The process of answering questions to earn money
Putting bricks on top of each other forever and ever
The process of turning raw materials into a finished product
The process of turning a finshed product back into a raw material
59
Finish the sentence; Socialism is an economic system in which...
all basic and non-basic industries are owned by a central government
people & privately owned companies own (non-)basic businesses & industries
the government owns non-basic industries; but not basic industries
the government owns basic industries; but not non-basic indutries
60
What is cultural diffusion?
Traditions & customs of a culture passed down from generation to generation
Complex set of meaning/attitude/value/idea(s) belonging to a cultural group
Process of accepting/borrowing/exchanging ideas and traits among cultures
The movement of customs and ideas from one culture to another
61
What is a human resource?
Parts of the human body that can be used to produce goods and/or services
Certain fossil fuels that contribute to the production of goods & services
Talents/skills of human(s) that contribute to production of goods/services
Natural resources that contribute to the production of goods or services
62
What is a producer (geography terminology)?
A person who buys goods or services
Products that are made; objects that can satisfy people's wants
A person who makes products that are used by other people
A plant, that obsorbs solar energy to make food. Is then eaten by consumers
63
What are low latitudes (tropics)?
The regions between the Prime Meridian and the Equater
The region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
Regions between Arctic Circle & North Pole, & Antarctic Circle & South Pole
The regions between Tropic of Cancer, Artic Circle, & Antartic Circle
64
What is population?
The average number of people in a given area (often a square mile, ppsm)
Quality of life, measured by education, housing, health care, & nutrition
People living in a certain area; mainly total number of people in that area
How a population is spread over an area
65
What is a rural area?
An area with high population density, such as a city or town
A usually residential area close to a city
An area with low population density such as a village or the countryside
The growth of city populations caused by the movement of people to cities
66
What is the best definition of erosion?
Reddish coating on certain metals when oxidized, espeacially around water
When water runs through a certain area a lot that it digs into the surface
The process of wearing or being worn by long exposure to the atmosphere
When water, wind, or ice wears away landforms & carries it to another place
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What are services?
Physical desire that can be fulfilled by recieving goods and/or services
Something that someone has to have in order to survive (water/food/shelter)
Work/duties done for other; actions that can satisfying people's wants.
Man-made resources needed to produce goods or services like machinery/tools
68
What is weather?
What happens in the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere over a short time
Rain, sleet, hail, and snow, that fall to the ground from the atmosphere
Weather patterns that an area experiences over a long period of time
when mother nature has to pee! Oh noo...get inside, before we drown :0!
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What are intermediate directions?
The four main compass points: north, south, east, and west.
The points of the compass that fall between each set of cardinal directions
The section of a map that explains the symbols for the map features.
A map feature that usually shows the four cardinal directions
70
What is a natural resource?
Any useful material found in the environment
Resource/material before being processed/manufactured into a useful product
A material/resource found in the enviroment that is not useful in any way
Resource/material after being processed/manufactured into a useful product
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What is an ecosystem?
Usually to make room for farms and homes
The process of clearing land of forests or trees
Community of living things and their environment
The elements of an ecosystem interact with one another
72
What is the Equater?
Used as reference point to measure north and south latitudes
Imaginary line that splits the globe into two equal sections (hemispheres).
Imaginary line that runs North to South
Used as a refernce point to measure east and west longitudes
73
What is climate?
Rain, sleet, hail, and snow, that fall to the ground from the atmosphere
when mother nature has to pee! Oh noo...get inside, before we drown :0!
Weather patterns that an area experiences over a long period of time
What happens in the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere over a short time
74
What is a developing nation?
A country with a modern farming industry, and a well developed markets
A country with low industrial production, often lacking modern technology
A country with a modern industrial society and a well developed economy
A country with low famring industries, and often lacking good markets
75
What is the theme of geography movement?
An area with characteristics such as climate, land, population, or history
A location's physical and human features, like mountains and ampartments
It that explains how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another
The place where a particular point or object exists
76
What is a want?
Man-made resources needed to produce goods or services like machinery/tools
Something that someone has to have in order to survive (water/food/shelter)
Work/duties done for other; actions that can satisfying people's wants.
Physical desire that can be fulfilled by recieving goods and/or services
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What is cultural traits (practice)?
Language, religious beliefs, values, customs, and skills
A tangible or intangible product of a cultural group
Behaviors of a group of people that is passed from generation to generation
Ways of life shared by a group of people
78
What is the definition of sparse?
an area that contains no people or things
people or things scattered out
people or things which are crowded together
people or things which are not scattered not crowded together
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What is cultural perspective?
Complex set of meaning/attitude/value/idea(s) belonging to a cultural group
The movement of customs and ideas from one culture to another
Traditions & customs of a culture passed down from generation to generation
Process of accepting/borrowing/exchanging ideas and traits among cultures

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