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Unit 1: Social Studies and the World
Unit 1: Social Studies and the World
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What is the difference between relative and absolute location?
Absolute = relationships to a place;relative = lat/long
Absolute=lat/long lines;relative uses relationships of place
2
What kind of advancements help cartographers get better/more accurate images of the earth?
advancements in technology
advancements in grids
advancements in satellites
advancements in iphones
3
What are two ways you can become a citizen?
Citizenship, naturalization
neutral territories, taking a test
being a citizen
naturalization process and being born there
4
What is the
special line
at
0* longitude
and divides the earth into east and west hemispheres?
meridians
prime meridian
equator
longitude lines
5
Which area of social studies is a record of the past?
Government
Culture
Economics
History
6
What kind of map is this?
B and C
Cartogram
Thematic map
Political map
7
What are the five fields of social studies?
history, geography, economics, government, culture
location, region, place, movement, human environment
8
How does a culture region become multicultural?
Advances in technology help with the sharing of ideas
Interdependence of goods and services
Immigration/migration to areas
all of the above
9
What kind of map shows physical features of the earth?
Thematic
Flow-Line
Physical map
Political
10
How do you prepare for this social studies test?
study math
go on facebook
play video games
study your basic map review and chapter notes
11
What do you call the lines on a map that
run north and south
and measure east and west?
longitude lines
Prime meridian
Equator
latitude lines
12
Can an area share more than one culture region?
No
Yes
13
What gives us the most accurate example of our world?
globe
Robinson Projection
map
projection
14
What is the study of physical and human features of the earth and how they interact?
Culture
Economics
Geography
History
15
What tells you how
measured
space on a map relates to
distance
on earth?
Scale
Intermediate directions
compass rose
Legend/Key
16
What theme considers an area's distinguishing characteristics or what it’s like?
place
movement
region
location
17
What theme considers how people change and how they are changed by natural forces of the earth?
history
movement
human environment interaction
location
18
What kind of map only has one theme or idea?
Physical
Political
Thematic
Flow-Line
19
What makes this thematic map a cartogram?
The countries are shown
The sizes of the countries are distorted to show meaning
It looks "digital"
China is the largest country
20
What kind of map shows boundaries of cities, states/providences, or other boarders?
Political
Thematic
Flow-Line
Physical
21
What makes culture region?
A place of people
similar areas
a location on the earth
an area sharing similar culture/geographic traits
22
What does this cartogram tell us?
US is ranked 5th in the world's most populous countries
all of the above
Australia doesn't seem to have a lot of people
China and India seem to have the most population
23
What kind of map shows movements of people, animals, or goods etc.?
Flow-Line Map
Thematic
Political
Physical
24
What theme considers an area's
common
characteristics?
place
location
region
movement
25
What theme tells where a place is in relation to the world? Can be absolute/relative
region
place
location
movement
26
The different ways of showing earth's curved surface on a 2D representation is called...
globes
maps
projections
27
What is the study of how goods and services are produced, managed, and exchanged?
Government
History
Flow-Line Map
Economics
28
What do you call beliefs, customs, laws, art, language, and a way of living that people share?
History
Culture
Government
Geography
29
What kind of map projection is this?
Homolosine
Mercator
Azimuthal
Robinson
30
What theme considers a movement of people?
region
movement
location
place
31
Why does this map of Iowa NOT have trees in the middle?
This is a physical map
Green represents forests
Green represents about 1000 ft above sea level
It does, this is a trick question
32
What is the
special line
at
0* latitude
and divides the earth into north and south hemispheres?
Prime meridian
longitude lines
latitude lines
equator
33
What tells you what the map is going to be about?
title
legend/key
34
What do you call the lines on a map that
run east and west
and measure north and south?
equator
prime meridian
longitude lines
latitude lines
35
Why do we use the Robinson Projection more than the Mercator projection?
The Robinson distorts more, so that's why we use it
We use the Mercator projection more.
The Robinson distorts less, so that's why we use it
Mercator is square, Robinson is round
36
What area of social studies includes the people and groups that have authority to make laws?
Geography
Economics
History
Government
37
What is an example of relative location?
North of the Stanley-Boyd Schools
Next to the McDonalds
B and C
45*S, 90*W
38
What is a cartographer?
map photographer
mapmaker
map painter
longitude/latitude lines
39
What are examples of resources we use to find out about the past?
newspapers, letters, wikipedia
newspapers, letters, journals
Facebook, instagram, youtube
snapchat, internet, TV
40
What do you call the
element
on a map that shows direction?
intermediate directions
cardinal directions
scale
compass rose
41
What kind of map projection is this?
Azimuthal
Mercator
Homosoline
Robinson
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What are the five themes of geography?
history, geography, economics, government, culture
who, what, when, where, why
location, region, place, movement, human environment
space, area, place, time, location
