1st Quarter Geography Flashcards
(40 cards)
What is absolute location?
Absolute location is an exact location of something often done in longitude and latitude.
What is relative location?
Relative location is a non exact but genehral location of something.
What is place?
A place is an area that is defined by everything in it. All places have features that give them personality and distinguish them from other places.
What is human Human-environment interaction?
Human-environment interaction looks at the relationships between people and their environment; how people adapt to the environment and how they change it.
What is movement?
Movement refers to the way people, products, information and ideas move from one place to another. This can be local such as how did you get to school today, or it can be global such as how did humans get to North America?
What is a formal region?
Formal region is a term used in geography to describe designated areas that have official boundaries such as counties, cities, states and countries. Most of the formal regions are characterized by relative uniformity such as people sharing a particular language.
What is a functional region?
Functional regions are defined by their connections. For example, the circulation area for a major city area is the functional region of that paper.
What is a vemauk region?
Vernacular regions are perceived regions, such as “The South,” “The Midwest,” or the “Middle East;” they have no formal boundaries but are understood in our mental maps of the world.
What is civilization?
A highly developed culture.
What’s a city state?
A city and the surrounding countryside.
Whats polytheism?
A belief in more than 1 god.
What is theocracy?
A type of government which one person rules both religiously and as king.
What is cuneiform?
The Sumerian way of writing using wedge shaped symbols pressed into clay tablets.
What’s an empire?
A group of lands under one ruler.
What’s a delta?
An area formed from soil in a river.
What’s a pharaoh?
The ruler of ancient Egypt.
What’s a pyramid?
A huge stone stricter that’s a tomb or monument.
What is a hieroglyphic?
a. Of, relating to, or being a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.
What’s a papyrus?
a material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats.
Whats a autocracy?
AUTOCRACY- IS A GOVERNMENT IN WHICH ONE PERSON HAS ALL THE POWER. TWO TYPES - A MONARCHY AND A DICTATORSHIP.
Whats a monarchy?
MONARCHY- A KING OR QUEEN RULES A COUNTRY. MONARCHY USUALLY COME TO POWER THROUGH A FAMILY LINE. “IN OLD TIMES” MONARCH HELD ALL THE POWER AND HAD FINAL SAY OVER GOVERNMENT. “IN MODERN TIMES” USUALLY SHARE POWER WITH OTHER PARTS OF GOVERNMENT.
What’s a dictatorship?
DICTATORSHIP- A FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE ONE LEADER HAS ABSOLUTE CONTROL OVER CITIZENS LIVES.
What’s a REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY?
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY- CITIZENS ELECT LEADERS TO REPRESENT THEIR RIGHTS AND INTERESTS IN GOVERNMENT. CITIZENS HOLD THE ULTIMATE POWER- THEY ELECT THEIR REPRESENTATIVES DEMOCRACY- CITIZENS ELECT LEADERS TO REPRESENT THEIR RIGHTS AND INTERESTS IN GOVERNMENT. CITIZENS HOLD THE ULTIMATE POWER- THEY ELECT THEIR REPRESENTATIVES
What’s a direct democracy?
DIRECT DEMOCRACY- THERE ARE NO REPRESENTATIVES. CITIZENS ARE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE “DAY TO DAY GOVERNING THE COUNTRY. BEST EXAMPLE IS ANCIENT GREECE. NOT PRACTICAL IN MODERN DAY.
