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MIDTERM REVIEW Flashcards

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What factors affect climate?

A 
Latitude
Air Masses
Continentality 
Elevation
Mountain Barriers
Ocean Currents
Pressure Cells
Storm Tracks
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What kinds of vegetation are found in the forestlands?

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Deciduous & coniferous trees

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What kinds of vegetation are found in the grasslands?

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Grass

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What kinds of vegetation are found in the tundra?

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Mossed and lichen

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What kinds of vegetation are found in the desert?

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Sagebrush
Cacti
Shrubs

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What explains the reasons for the seasons?

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Th tilt of the earth on its axis!

23.5°

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What causes earthquakes?

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Transform tectonic plate movements

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What is the physical and chemical process that changes the characteristics of rock on or near the earth’s surface?

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Weathering!

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What’s the difference between climate and weather?

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Climate is the long term weather conditions in a place

Weather is the short term conditions of the atmosphere at a particular location and time

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What’s a Region?

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An area of the earth’s surface with similar characteristics (physical, political, economic, and cultural)

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What’s absolute location?

Relative?

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Absolute: direct address, or lat and long.

Relative: describes a place relative to its surroundings (3 blocks from the library)

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What are the 3 ways people altar the environment?

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Adaptation
Modification
Dependency

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What’s desertification?

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When fertile land becomes a desert. Mainly as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.

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Why do people live on the coast?

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Because that’s where trade is the fastest and the most abundant.

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What can a ovulation pyramid show?

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Can show birth rates, death rates, how developed a country is, how the country lives, education rates, and who can read, etc.

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What stage population pyramid has a low birth and low death rate?

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Contracting (stage 4)

17
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What stage population pyramid has a high birth rate and low death rate?

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Stationary (stage 3)

18
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Which pyramid has a high birth and death rate?

A

Expanding (stage 1+2)

19
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What’s the different between immigration and emigration?

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Immigration: coming into the country
Emigration: exit a country

20
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What’s culture? What elements impact culture?

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The knowledge of values, norms, and attitudes shared and passed by members of a specific group.

Elements: arts, language, relationships, beliefs, institutions, technology

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What is the feeling of pride and loyalty toward your country?

A

Nationalism

22
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What’s the difference between race and ethnicity?

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Race: biologically transmitted traits that are obvious and considered important.

Ethnicity: specific groups that shares a language, customs, and common heritage

23
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What are the 3 types of Christianity?

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Catholicism
Orthodox
Protestant

24
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All countries have what kind of economic system?

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Socialist (mixed)

25
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What are the levels of economic development?

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Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quarternary
Quinary
26
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What is democracy?

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Citizens hold power either directly or through elected representatives

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What is a dictatorship?

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Centralized power around an individual or a military group (mainly one person) like in North Korea.

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What’s an oligarchy?

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2 kings rule a nation. Small group of people have control over a country, organization, or institution.

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What’s a theocracy?

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When the country is controlled by religious leaders.

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What’s a republic?

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Supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives.

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What’s a monarchy?

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Oldest form of government. Family controls that country. Less power to the citizens.

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Whats a single-party state?

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Only the ruling party governs. Small group of people (they call the selves the “elite party”) will rule that country.

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What’s a unitary government?

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When the upper level government doesn’t recognize states or subdivisions of land or entities.

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What’s a confederate government?

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Power is divided between national and state authorities. Primary power is given to individual states (mainly lower government controls)

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What’s a federal government?

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Divide power between central government and constituent government. (Central government sees people as a whole, lower government sees people as individuals)

36
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What’s the European Union?

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A group of countries in Europe that formed a confederation to made trade faster and easier

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What was the Cold War? who did it involve and why?

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The Cold War was a war that had no physical fighting, just an increase in military power. It happened when USA and Russia disagreed about communism and democracy.

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