Geography Ch. 2

What is an economy which privately owned businesses created goods people buy?

What is the imaginary line through the center of the Earth that is the center of its rotation?

When is the longest day of the year in the southern hemisphere?

What is a religion that is polytheistic?

What word means means having one deity?

What is the sacred text of Christianity?

What is the term used for the sections of the earth’s crust?

What is the term for the slow movement of tectonic plates?

What type of economy involves taking raw materials and making something for the market place?

Which term is the wealth and infrastructure used in production?

What is the highest-level economy involving service industries like banking and health care?

What is the term that refers to equal lengths of day and night all over the globe?

Who rules in a monarchy?

What is another name for a capitalist economy?

When is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere?

What occurs when the sun heats the ocean and water vapor rises up into the atmosphere?

Which term includes all natural resources used to produce goods?

What is the boundary between two air masses called?

What is the term for an economy that doesn’t use money and is based on custom?

What causes the mild climate in England and Ireland?

What is the term for a highly developed society?

What is the effect of higher elevation on temperatures?

What is the type of economy that involves extracting raw material from the earth or ocean?

When is the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere?

Which of these is a government by a few people, usually through force?

When is the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere?

What is the term for way people live, behave or think?

What term refers to cooler temperatures in the atmosphere causing water to change to droplets?

What term is the measurement of the total value of goods and services produced in a country?

How long does it take the Earth to rotate on its axis?

What is the term used for the edge of a continent that extends out under the ocean floor?

Which of these is a government in which everything is owned by the government?

What causes parts of the earth to get more direct sunlight at times and causes seasons?

What is the term for water droplets that grow heavier and fall in the form of rain or snow?

What includes the current temperature, precipitation and humidity?

What is the term for the exact start of summer or winter?

What causes weather to change?

Which of these is a government by a single person, usually through force?

What is the term for the Earth’s physical features of the Earth, like hills and plains?

What is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular time?

What is the ocean associated with the circle of volcanoes and earthquakes?

Which term is the creativity and risk needed to develop new goods and services?

Land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship are called what?

How long does it take the earth to travel around the sun?

Which of these experience more change between winter and summer?

When is the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere?

What is precipitation that soaks into the ground, goes into rivers and the ocean called?

What are smaller bodies of salt water called?

What is a government-directed economy?

What is the sacred text of Judaism?

What is a mountain that erupts in an explosion of molten rock, gases and ash?

Where do most tornadoes form?

What is the sacred text of Islam?

What is the term for the circle of volcanoes and earthquakes?

What includes average temperature, average precipitation and change from season to season?

What is the term used for the beginning of spring and autumn?

What is the average condition of the atmosphere over a long period of time called?

Where are most (75%) volcanoes located?

What are large, powerful waves caused by earthquakes beneath the ocean?