World Geography Unit Test 1
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- accretion
- a sea plate slowly slides under a continental plate.
- autocracy
- -one person rules -totalitarian dictator -absolute monarchy
- command economy
- -govt. controls production and makes all economic decisions
- cultural diffusion*
- spreading of culture
- democracy
- -ruled by many -two types: --direct democracy --republic ----people elect representatives
- desalination*
- process of salt being removed from water
- functional region
- area united/linked by specific/common characteristics.
- Geographers use history to:
- determine what places looked like in the past.
- language families
- similar roots
- level of government:
- 1)unitary system --centralized (federal govt. holds most power)
- loess
- fertile soil deposited by wind and water.
- market economy
- -ruled by laws of supply & demand -mixed economy --some govt. regulation example) no monopolies
- northern-most location that recieves direct sunlight
- tropic of cancer
- oligarchy
- -one political party -govt. of most communist countries
- region
- central place and its surroundings.
- socialism & communism
- -communism )strict govt. control -socialism )still strict, but less than above. --govt. controls most everything in both of these.
- subduction
- process that occurs when a heavier sea plate dives beneath a lighter continental plate.
- terrestrial planets are...
- mercury, venus, earth, mars.
- traditional economy
- -customs and traditions -barter(trading) used often
- two main branches of geography are..
- )physical geography )human geography
- weathering
- rock being broken down
- _______ block flow of moisture-filled air
- mountains