Geo Final Review 2
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- communication networks
- any way ppl send or receive info or ideas
- communist countries
- those w/a command economy and socialist system
- veld
- grassy interior plateau
- rift valley
- long narrow valley w/ steep walls caused by shifting of the earth's crust
- tropic of capricorn
- 23 1/2 south of equator
- vital stats
- records of the most basic events of our lives
- luan
- philippine mahogany
- telecommunications
- the electrical ways of sending long distance messages between 2+ ppl
- gauchos
- indian nomadic descendant cowboys
- common market
- group of countries that have joined together to let goods move feely from one member country to another w/o being taxed
- culture region
- a group of countries w/a common history, language, religion, or ways of living
- paddies
- fields w/banks around them
- animists
- spirit-worshippers
- demographers
- population specialists
- loess
- wind blown soil
- 3rd stage
- birth rate falls, better medical care, death rate falls, 1-2% growth rate
- rate of natural growth
- % that shows how fast the population is growing, must know birth / death rates
- transportation networks
- move ppl, things, ideas, or info from one place to another
- indochina
- mainland of se asia
- bedouins
- arabs
- scale
- the size of a amp, compared w/what it represents
- swahili
- coastal language w/many arab words, is language of trade
- shiism
- islamic religion practiced in iran
- ottoman empire
- former turk empire which occupied asia minor, n africa, se europe and sw asia
- berber
- original north african inhabitant
- gezira
- region of irrigated land where nile and blue nile rivers merge
- irrigation
- way to water from crops artificially
- language
- speech used by a country , tribe , or group of ppl to communicate
- boers
- early dutch farmers
- afrikaners
- descendants of boers
- bantu
- dark-skinned tribe
- apartheid
- official policy to keep black and whites seperate
- palestine
- s part of land fringing med sea
- large-scale maps
- show only a small egion and many details of that area
- muslims
- followers of islam
- bantustans
- african reservations
- westernizing
- spread of western technology
- arab
- nomadic desert tribes of arabian peninsula
- bazaar
- traditional market area
- domesticated
- tamed
- favela
- slum on outskirts of brazilian city
- mate'
- tea made from dried leaves
- population density
- figure that tells u avg. number of ppl living on sq. unit of land
- economic systems
- the ways ppl use their resources to meet their needs and wants
- great circle
- equator b/c it contains center of earth
- balsa
- tropical American tree that is strong but light
- rotation
- spinning w. to e. motion of earth
- commodity organization
- group of countries that have joined together to control how their particular product is best bought and sold
- 4th stage
- birth & death rates low, growth <1%, where we are
- third world
- rest of the worlds countries
- socialism
- economic system in which the means of production are owned by the government
- reservoirs
- lg lakes where h2o is stored
- landlocked
- shut in by land w/no outlet to the sea
- tierra helada
- perpetual ice and snow
- command economy
- economic system in which the government makes most of the decisions according to a central plan
- plaza
- park
- market economy
- system in which producers and consumers are free of government controls
- antarctic circle
- 66 1/2 south of equator
- sparse
- where there are only a few ppl living far apart
- globe
- sphere w/a map covering it
- tierra fria
- cool lands w/mild days and cold nights w/wheat and potatoes
- mesopotamia
- the land between the tigris and euphrates rivers
- communism
- system of communist countries
- mixed economies
- economic system that includes some features of capitalism and some of socialism
- arctic circle
- 66 1/2 north of equator
- authoritarianism
- political system in which leaders choose themselves and impose their will on the ppl
- sheik
- bedouin leader
- 2nd stage
- beginnings of technology, death rate falls, lg families, rate of growth up to 3/4%
- pampas
- plains area in argentina and uruguay from inland to coast
- religion
- system of beliefs
- rural
- belonging to the countryside
- latifundios
- lg. SA estates
- census
- periodic offical count of ppl every 10 yrs
- immigrate
- to come into a country / region to live there
- jute
- tough reed whose fibers are used as carpet backing and burlap bags
- estancias
- large ranches
- lines of longitude
- meridians that are geat circles
- alliances
- joining of countries to protect themselves from invasion
- dense
- where there are many ppl living close together
- anglo-america
- us and canada, part of wH where the majority of ppl speak english
- chicle
- sap that forms base for chewing gum
- latin america
- n mexico to s sa where spanish culture predominates
- ejidos
- lg mexican farm owned and worked by several lg families or community
- hemisphere
- 1/2 sphere
- haciendas
- lg ranch/estate in Latin America where landless farmers worked
- civilization
- culture and ways of living or a group of ppl or country
- mestizos
- have Spanish and Indian ancestors
- sphere
- round ball
- emigrate
- to leave ones country to settle in another
- summer solstice
- beginning of summer in our hemisphere, June 21 (longest day)
- general reference map
- shows places such as land and water bodies, countries, and cities
- tierra caliente
- hot lands
- rain shadow
- dry area on a leeward side of mountain
- migration
- moving of people from place to place
- estuary
- finger of the sea
- death rate
- number of deaths each year for every 1000 ppl
- special purpose map
- shows an important feature
- tannin
- acid used to make strong leather
- llama
- camel-like animal used as beast of burden
- quebracho
- SA tree w/hard wood which produces tannin
- birth rate
- number of births each yr for every 1000 ppl
- lines of latitude
- set of lines parallel to each other that run around the globe east and west of equator
- coca
- leaves chewed to fight cold temperatures
- 1st stage
- population SLOW, many children die, war, few countries today
- tierra templada
- warm temperatures w/ coffee and citrus
- map symbols
- stand for something on a map
- llanos
- grassy lowlands in orinoco basin
- cultural / human features
- all ppl and things made or changed by ppl
- population
- number of worlds people
- puna
- cold lands
- small-scale maps
- show large areas of the earth and sm. amounts of detail
- geographer
- a person who studies places on the earth's surface and the ppl in those places
- anchovies
- small silver fish from peru
- geography
-
concerned w/ppl and their environment
- region
- lg. area of land which has 1 or more features that make it different from neighboring areas
- groww national product per person
- total value of everything a country produces in one yr divided by population
- sunnism
- islam practiced in most of the islamic world
- revolution
- earth's circular orbit around the sun
- map
- representation of the earth's surface
- projection
- method used to flatten out the earth on a piece of paper
- squatter
- person who settles on public or unoccupied land w/o permission
- international date line
- invisible line in Pacific Ocean where e and w time zones meet
- backlands
- lands that presently lay idle
- tropic of cancer
- 23 1/2 north of equator
- equator
- divides earth into 2 = parts
- culture
- common way of thinking and acting
- cacao
- sm SA tree which is used for chocolate
- capitalism
- economic system that functions w/individual ownership
- autumnal equinox
- in N. H. , 9/23 when sun strongest at equator
- vernal equinox
- 3/21, 1st day of spring in NH, when sun = in both hemispheres
- sisal
- fibers used to make rope
- adobe
- sun-dried clay or mud
- fertile crescent
- lg area which stetch in arc from med sea to persian gulf
- fazenda
- brazilian coffee plantation
- political systems
- the ways ppl make and carry out their laws
- latitude
- distance or position north and south of the equator
- legend aka KEY
- explains map symbols
- holocaust
- hitler's mass murders
- free world
- democratic countries which have democratic gov and industrialized market economies w/ some government ownership
- natural / physical features
- all parts of environment not made by ppl
- parallels
- lines of latitude
- axis
- imaginary line that runs thru center of earth
- winter solstice
- 1st day of winter in NH, reversed summer solstice
- democracy
- political system where ppl elect representatives to make their laws
- meridians
- imaginary lines crossing the parallels
- subcontinent
- land mass that is very large, but smaller than a continent
- coordinate
- degrees of latitude and longitude used in giving location
- cyclones
- seasonal wind of the indian ocean, accompanied by heavy rains
- sharecroppers
- subsistence farmers who work the land of the lg landowners for a share of the crop
- longitude
- distance or position measured e or w of prime meridian
- prime meridian
- 0 longitude, which runs thru NP thru Greenwich, England
- grid
- pattern formed when parallels placed over meridians
- linkages
- anything that moves ppl or things from 1 place to another