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51 Cards in this Set
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Exact position of a place on the earth's surface |
Absolute location |
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Mountains through Central Europe |
Alps |
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Number of births per year per 1,000 people |
Birth rate |
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The 4 courses on routes North, South, East, and West |
Cardinal direction |
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Map making |
Cartography |
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Removal of all trees in a stand of timber |
Clear cutting |
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Pattern of typical weather |
Climate |
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New knowledge to another culture |
Cultural diffusion |
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High point that determines river flow |
Divide |
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Partially self-governing country with close ties to another country |
Dominion |
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The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment |
Ecosystem |
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A movement that emphasized the importance of reason and questioned traditions and values |
Enlightenment |
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People who share language and culture |
Ethnic groups |
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Process of converting water into vapor |
Evaporation |
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Power divided by state and national |
Federalism |
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Glaciers forming and spreading |
Glaciation |
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A large body of ice that moves across the surface of the Earth |
Glacier |
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A spherical representation of the Earth |
Globe |
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The source of a river or stream |
Headwaters |
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Half of a sphere or globe |
Hemisphere |
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The study of the interrelationship between people and their physical environment |
Human-Environment Interaction |
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The movement of people from one country to another |
Immigration |
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The rapid major change in the economy with the introduction of power-driven machinery |
Industrial revolution |
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A member of the Artic Native peoples of North America |
Inuit |
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Distance North or South from the equator measured in degrees |
Latitude |
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Distance measured by degrees or time East or West from the Prime Meridian |
Longitude |
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Free enterprise; privately owned |
Market economy |
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Inland sea enclosed by Europe, Asia, and Africa |
Mediterranean Sea |
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The movement of people from place to place |
Migration |
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An inland grassland area |
Prairies |
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Piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides |
Peninsula |
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Permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground |
Permafrost |
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The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer |
Population density |
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The pattern of population Ina country, a continent, or the world |
Population distribution |
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A change to private ownership of state-owned companies industries |
Privatization |
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An administrative district or division of a country |
Province |
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Religious movement that began in Germany in the 1400s, leading to the establishment of Protestant Churches |
Reformation |
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One who flees his or her home for safety |
Refugee |
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Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production |
Socialism |
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Mild climate region in the Southern United States |
Sunbelt |
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Russia term for the vast subarctic forest, mostly evergreens, that covers much of Russia and Siberia |
Taiga |
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Tax on imports or exports |
Tariffs |
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Elevation above which it is too cold for trees to grow |
Timberline |
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Shape of Earth's physical features |
Topography |
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Vast, treeless plains in cold Northern climates, characterized by permafrost and small, low plants, such as mosses and shrubs |
Tundra |
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Divide European Russia and Asian Russia |
Ural Mountains |
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The movement of people from rural areas into cities |
Urbanization |
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List & define 3 types of maps. |
1. Physical- show topography/shape of physical features 2. Political- show man made features/ boundaries 3. Thematic- show a single idea |
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Draw the 4 parts of the physical world. |
• atmosphere • hydrosphere • lithosphere • biosphere |
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Label the 4 layers of Earth. |
• crust • mantle • outer core • inner core |
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Draw and label the water cycle. |
• evaporation • condensation • precipitation |
