| Term | Definition |
|---|
| T in TODALSIGS | Title |
| O in TODALSIGS | Orientation |
| D in TODALSIGS | Date |
| A in TODALSIGS | Author |
| L is TODALSIGS | Legend |
| First S in TODALSIGS | Scale |
| I in TODALSIGS | Index |
| G in TODALSIGS | Grid |
| 2nd S in TODALSIGS | Source |
| TODALSIGS go on the ____ side of the map | Front |
| Runs in East-West direction, parallels, Degrees North or South, Climate, | Latitude |
| Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Arctic Circle, Tropic of Capricorn, Antartartic Circle | Major Lines of Latitude |
| Runs in North-South direction, Meridians, Converge at Polar Regions, Numbered in Degrees North or South, Prime Meridian, Associated with Time | Longitude |
| Prime Meridian, International Dateline | Major Lines of Longitude |
| Shortest route between any tow points on earth. Airplanes and ships navigate along great-circle routes. Northern Hemisphere = Arc Upward, Southern Hemisphere = Arc Downward | Great Circles |
| A ruling family is or leads the government. | Traditional Monarch |
| This is a Democracy. The monarchy remains as a cultural tradition | Constitutional Monarchy |
| No form of government | Anarchy |
| Government run by religious leader, Laws often interpreted through books | Theocracy |
| An elite group rules the government | Oligarchy |
| A government by the people | Democracy |
| One person rules the government usually by force | Totalitarian |
| Economic and political system: government owns and controls almost all of the facilities and resources necessary to make products | Communism |
| Government owns some, but not all industries. Often includes high taxes to pay for industries like health care. | Socialism |
| Based on "free enterprise" resources industries, and businesses owned by private corporations | Capitalism |
| Economic principal people free to choose what and when to buy and sell | Free Enterprise |
| Government assumes responsibility for people's welfare in terms of employment, retirement, and medical care | Social Welfare |
| Directly uses resources and raw materials | Primary Industries |
| Takes goods made in primary industry and creates products useful to consumers | Secondary Industry |
| Provides services to communities, and individuals | Tertiary Industries |
| Provides specialized skills and knowledge to communicates and all other industries | Quaternary Industries |
| Location, Place, Region, Movement, Human - Environment Interaction | 5 Themes of Geography |
| Maps, Photos | Tools and Methods used by Geographers |
| Use a grid system to precisely find where something is located | Absolute Location |
| Compares it to surrounding areas | Relative Location |
| Physical Features, Cultural Characteristics | Place |
| An area of the earth's surface with similar characteristics | Region |
| Relationships between humans and their environment | Human-Environment Interaction |
| Learned ways of life of a group passed through generations | Culture |
| Behavior or activity repeatedly practiced by people in a given culture | Culture Trait |
| A region where important new ideas and developments originate | Culture Hearth |
| New idea that is accepted into a culture | Innovation |
| A fear of foreigners or foreign ideas and things | Xenophobia |
| Common, yet over - simplified, opinion of a group or person | Stereotype |
| Spreading of cultural traits form one culture to another | Cultural Diffusion |
| When one culture adopts traits from another | Acculturation |
| When individuals adapt their lives to become similar to the majority culture | Assimilation |
| G in GRACEFELE | Government |
| R in GRACEFELE | Religion |
| A in GRACEFELE | Architecture |
| C in GRACEFELE | Clothing |
| 1st E in GRACEFELE | Education |
| F in GRACEFELE | Foods |
| 2nd E in GRACEFELE | Economics |
| L in GRACEFELE | Language |
| 3rd E in GRACEFELE | Entertainment |
| A large group of islands | Archipelago |
| A ring of small islands built up on a coral reef surrounding a shallow lagoon | Atoll |
| A small body of water that extends into the land | Bay |
| A point of land that juts out into the water | Cape |
| The part of the sea floor that slopes gently down from the continents | Continental Shelf |
| A fan - shaped landform the mouth of a river, created by deposits of sediment | Delta |
| A region of little rainfall where few plants and animals live | Desert |
| A narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high, rocky cliffs created by glaciers | Fjord |
| A large mass of ice that moves slowly down a mountain or through a valley | Glacier |
| A large body of salt water that is partly enclosed by land | Gulf |
| A piece of land that is surrounded by water | Island |
| A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas | Isthmus |
| An inland body of fresh or salt water | Lake |
| A high area of land with steep sides and a sharp peak | Mountain |
| A very large body of salt water | Ocean |
| A landform bordered by water on three sides | Peninsula |
| A flat area of land that is higher than the land around it | Plateau |
| A long body of water that flows across the land from a higher to a lower elevation | River |
| A body of salt water that is partly enclosed by land | Sea |
| A large passage of water, wider than a strait, connecting two bodies of water | Sound |
| A narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water | Strait |
| A stream or river that feeds a lake or larger stream or river | Tributary |
| An area of low land between mountains or hills | Valley |
| A hole in the earth's crust through which lava, gases, and ash are released | Volcano |
| Land areas that are flooded for at least part of the year | Wetlands |
| A small, shallow body of water that is partly cut off from the sea or ocean | Lagoon |
| Temperature and Precipitation | Factors for Climate Region |
| Tropical, Dry, Mid- Latitude, High Latitude, and Highland | 5 Climate Regions |
| Always hot, Average precipitation 80 inches | Tropical Wet |
| Rainy Summer, Dry Winter, Cooler dry, warmer wet. Found next to Tropical Wet Climates | Tropical Wet and Dry |
| About 16 inches of rain, Hot summers, mild to cold winters, some snow. | Semiarid |
| Categorized according to the amount of rainfall | Desert |
| Located by the Mediterranean Sea | Mediterranean |
| Close to ocean, foggy, cloudy, damp, smog | Marine West Coast |
| Long periods of summer heat and humidity characterize the region | Humid Subtropical |
| Evergreen forests called the taiga cover the lands in the region | Subartic |
| The flat treeless lands forming a ring around the Artic Oceans | Tundra |
| Subsoil that is constantly frozen | Permafrost |
| An interdependent community of plants and animals | Ecosystem |
| The ecosystem of a region | Biome |
| A named characteristic of broadleaf trees, such as maple, oak, birch, and cottenwood | Deciduous |
| Is located in the tropical zone and is covered with a heavy concentration of broad leaf trees | Rain Forest |
| Needleleaf trees are also called coniferous trees because they are cone bearing | Coniferous |
| Flat, grassy, mostly treeless plains | Savanna |
| Or prairie are used to identify temperate grasslands | Steppe |
| Refers to the physical and chemical processes that change the characteristics of rock on or near the earth's surface | Weathering |
| Small pieces of rock produced by weathering processes | Sediment |
| Process that break rock into smaller pieces | Mechanical Weathering |
| When rock is changed into a new substance as a result of interaction between elements in the air or water and the minerals in the rock. | Chemical Weathering |
| When weathered material is moved by the action of wind, water, ice, or gravity, water must be present | Erosion |
| A ridge or hill of rock carried and finally deposited by a glacier | Moraine |
| Amount of organic matter or texture | Humus |
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