Geography Exam Vocabulary Review
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- Define subsistence farming.
- Farming that provides only enough food and animals for the needs of a family or village
- Define acculturation.
- The process of accepting, borrowing, and exchanging ideas and traits among cultures
- Define monarchy.
- A system of authoritarian government headed by a monarch - usually a king or queen who inherits the throne by birth
- Define direct democracy.
- A system of government in which the people participate in decision making
- Define rotation.
- The spinning motion of Earth, like a top on its axis; Earth takes about 24 hours to rotate one time
- Identify the processes in the water cycle.
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Precipitation
Evaporation
Condensation
- Identify the five types of climate.
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Tropical
Dry
Moderate
Contintental
Polar - Define absolute location.
- The exact position of a place on Earth
- What is a dictatorship?
- A government run by a dictator who has complete power over a country
- Define relative location.
- The location of a place as described by places near it
- What is a natural resource?
- Any useful material found in the ground
- What is demography?
- The study of human populations, including size, growth, density, distribution, and birth rates
- Define representative democracy.
- A system of government in which the people elect representatives to run the affairs of the country
- What is the plate tectonics theory?
- The theory that Earth's crust is made of huge, slowly moving slabs of rock called plates
- What is a fossil fuel?
- Any one of several nonrenewable resources such as coal, oil, or natural gas, created from the remains of plants and animals
- What is global warming?
- A slow increase in Earth's temperature due to the increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
- Define equator.
- The imaginary line that circles the globe at its widest point, dividing the Earth into two halves called hemispheres; used as a reference point from which north and south latitudes are measured
- Define latitude.
- The series of imaginary lines, also called parallels, that cirlce the Earth parallel to the Equator
- What is the International Date Line?
- The 180 degree meridian; when you cross it, the date and day change
- Define precipitation.
- All forms of water, such as rain, sleet, hail, and snow, that fall to the ground from the atmosphere
- Define longitude.
- The series of imaginary lines, also called meridians, that run north and south from one pole to the other
- Define migration.
- The movement of people from one country or region to another in order to make a new home
- Define capitalism.
- An economic system in which people and privately owned companies own both basic and nonbasic businesses and industries
- Define Prime Meridian.
- The imaginary line of longitude that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, England; it is designated at 0 degrees longitude and is used as a reference piont from which east and west lines of longitude are measured
- Define revolution.
- One complete orbit of Earth around the sun; Earth completes one revolution every 365.25 days, or one year
- Define cultural diffusion.
- The movement of customs and ideas from one culture to another
- Define socialism.
- An economic system in which the government owns most basic industries, such as transportation, communications, and banking; nonbasic industries are privately owned
- Define scale.
- The size of an area on a map as compared with the area's actual size
- Define culture.
- The language, religious beliefs, values, customs, and other ways of life shared by a group of people
- What is deforestation?
- The process of clearing land of forests or trees, usually to make room for farms and homes
- Identify map elements that are important to reading any map.
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Title
Scale
Legend/key
Compass Rose
Longitude/Latitude lines - Define communism.
- The theory of government in which property, such as farms and factories, is owned by the government for the benefit of all citizens; a political system in which the central government controls all aspects of the citizens' lives
- Define urbanization.
- The growth of city populations caused by the movement of people to cities