Chapters 1-4

Question 1

What is geography?

Answer 1

The world and all that’s in it

Question 2

What divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres?

Answer 2

The Equator

Question 3

What is the exact spot at which a place is found on the globe using a grid system?

Answer 3

Absolute location

Question 4

What place does the Prime Meridian go through?

Answer 4

Greenwhich, England

Question 5

What are places that has common characteristics and areas that are united by specific factors?

Answer 5

Regions

Question 6

What is an ecosystems?

Answer 6

a community of plants and animals that depend upon one another, and their surroundings, for survival

Question 7

What is cartography?

Answer 7

the study and making of maps

Question 8

What is the lithosphere?

Answer 8

land that makes up a part of the earth

Question 9

What is a hydrosphere?

Answer 9

Oceans, lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water

Question 10

What is the atmosphere?

Answer 10

the air in which we breathe; 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, and small amounts of argon and other gases

Question 11

What is the highest point on Earth above sea level?

Answer 11

Mt.Everest

Question 12

How tall is Mt.Everest

Answer 12

29,035 ft (8,852 m )

Question 13

What is the lowest point on dry land?

Answer 13

the Dead Sea

Question 14

How long is the Dead Sea?

Answer 14

1,349 feet (411 m )

Question 15

What is the mantle?

Answer 15

a thick layer of hot, dense rock

Question 16

What elements does the mantle have?

Answer 16

Silicon, aluminum, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and other elements

Question 17

What is the theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart?

Answer 17

Continental drift

Question 18

What are Faults?

Answer 18

Cracks in the earth’s crust

Question 19

What causes Faults?

Answer 19

plates that may grind or slide past each other

Question 20

What is Erosion?

Answer 20

the wearing away of the earth’s surface by wind, glaciers, and moving water

Question 21

Is Glaciation a part of the water cycle?

Answer 21

No

Question 22

What is an aquifer?

Answer 22

an underground porous rock layer often saturated with water in the form of streams

Question 23

What degree is Earth tilted?

Answer 23

23.5 degrees

Question 24

What is the greenhouse effect?

Answer 24

Earth’s atmosphere that traps the sun’s warmth for growing plants even in cold weather

Question 25

What is windward side?

Answer 25

the side of the mountain range facing towards the wind

Question 26

What is natural increase?

Answer 26

the growth rate of a population as the difference between an area's birthrate and its death rate

Question 27

What is Population distribution?

Answer 27

the pattern of human settlement

Question 28

What is the movement of people from place to place?

Answer 28

Migration

Question 29

Is Landform an element of culture?

Answer 29

No

Question 30

Name 3 elements of culture.

Answer 30

Language, Religion, and Government

Question 31

Name 3 major culture hearths.

Answer 31

India, Africa, and China

Question 32

Is the United States a major culture hearth?

Answer 32

No

Question 33

What is cultural diffusion?

Answer 33

the process of spreading new knowledge and skills from one culture to another

Question 34

What is a culture hearth?

Answer 34

early centers of civilization whose ideas and practices spread to surrounding areas

Question 35

What is a Unitary system?

Answer 35

gives all key powers to the national or central government

Question 36

What is a Federal system?

Answer 36

divides the powers of government between the national government and state or provincial government

Question 37

What is an Oligarchy?

Answer 37

a system of government in which a small group holds power. Usually from the wealth, military power, social position, or a combination of these elements

Question 38

What is a system of government in which leaders rule with the consent of the citizens?

Answer 38

Democracy

Question 39

What is a republic government?

Answer 39

citizens that elect on who they wish to represent them in city, state, and national

Question 40

What is a Traditional economy?

Answer 40

Habit and custom determine the rules for all economic activity

Question 41

What is a Market economy?

Answer 41

Individuals and Private groups make decisions about what to produce

Question 42

What is a Command economy?

Answer 42

The government owns or directs the means of production - land, labor, capital ( machinery, factories ), and business managers - and controls the distribution of goods

Question 43

Is Unit I the building blocks of geography?

Answer 43

True