Flashcards: WG Fall Final 2011
All 71 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Divergent Plates | plate boundary where two plates separate, causes mid-ocean ridge |
| Convergent Plates | Plates collide, causing one plate to go underneath or both edges crumble, creating mountains |
| Place | What is it like? |
| Location | Where is it? |
| Region | How are places similar and different? |
| Human environmental Interaction | How do people relate to the physical world? |
| Movement | How do people,goods and ideas move from one location to the other? |
| globalization | The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world. |
| Monotheistic | belief in one God |
| Polytheistic | worshipping or believing in more than one god |
| Time zone | any of the 24 regions of the globe (loosely divided by longitude) throughout which the same standard time is used. US has 4 time zones. |
| theology | the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary) |
| peninsula | land surrounded by water on three sides |
| Mt. McKinley | North America's highest peak located in Alaska |
| Mississippi River | a major North American river and the chief river of the United States |
| Communism | a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. |
| What are the major languages of the USA? | English and Spanish |
| Buddhism | teaching of Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) |
| What are main languages of Canada? | French and English |
| Infant Mortality | The number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births |
| Five Pillars of Faith | the essential duties of Muslims must fulfill; faith, prayer, alms, fasting and pilgrimage |
| population density | number of individuals per unit area |
| infrastructure | the set of resources, like roads and factories, that a country needs to support economic activities |
| free market | an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies. |
| command economy | An economic system in which the government controls a country's economy. |
| absolute location | exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates |
| prime meridian | The middle line of longitude, measuring 0 and dividing the globe into E / W hemispheres. |
| equator | an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles |
| revolution of earth | 1 revolution ( 365 1/2 days) is one trip around the sun. |
| equinox | either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length |
| geography | the study of the earth's surface, climate, continents, countries, peoples, industries, and products. |
| relative location | the position of a place in relation to another place |
| export | commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country |
| Canada 's political subdivisons | provinces and territories |
| urban sprawl | the growth of low density development outward from the edges of a city |
| infastructure | the basic supposer systems needed to keep an economy going, including power, communications, transportation, water, sanitation, and education systems. |
| inca | Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco. |
| aztecs | The Azetcs were a Native American Empire who lived in Mexico. Their capital was Tenochtitlan. They worshipped everything around them especially the sun. Cortes conquered them in 1521. |
| slash and burn | a farming method involving the cutting of trees, then burning them to provide ash-enriched soil for the planting of crops |
| terraced farming | a technique of growing crops in step-like fields cut into hillsides or mountain slopes |
| religion | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny |
| mayan | a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy |
| ring of fire | a major belt of volcanoes that rims the Pacific Ocean |
| population density | people per square mile of an area |
| maquiladoras | factories found in Mexico |
| llanos | plains region of eastern Colombia and western Venezuela |
| Andes Mountains | the world's longest mountain chain, stretching along the west coast of South America |
| nationalism | the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other |
| Berlin Wall | a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West (1989 Berlin was reunified) |
| Where was the 1st democracy started? | Athens, Greece |
| Deepest Freshwater Lake in the world | Lake Baikal |
| Himalayas | a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet |
| cold war | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted eachother on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. |
| reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church started by Martin Luther. |
| favela | a slum community in a Brazilian city |
| When did Columbus discover America? | 1492 |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada |
| What is the most common language and religion is found in Latin America? | Spanish and Catholicism |
| North Atlantic Drift | a current of warm water from the Tropics |
| What city uses boats to move around? | Venice |
| Where would you find an example of cultural crossroads? | Eastern Europe |
| frozen region in Northern Russia | Siberia |
| Panama Canal | important man made water way found in western hemisphere |
| Where did Renaissance begin? | Italy |
| Ural Mountains | a mountain range that separates Europe from Asia |
| tectonic plates | float on top of magma under the earth's surface |
| western wall | the sacred site of followers of Judaism. |
| Flow line map | Maps that show movement of things like people, animals or weather like hurricanes |
| tundra | a vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line example would be Russia |
| What are the coordinates for the USA? | 38 N 110 W |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
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