Unit Test Flashcards
Is the place where something can be found on the earths surface using latitude and longitude.
Location
This is how people impact their natural surroundings to meet their needs.
Human Environment Interaction
People moving from place to place because of lack of land, religious persecution, or jobs. There are push factors which make people leave and pull factors which make people move this is easier today than it has ever been because of easy transportation.
Movement and migration
A region is specific piece of land that is special to itself by landforms or geographic location ion. The three regions of Latin America are middle America, the Caribbean and South America.
Region
This is the specific address at which something is there.
Absolute Location
This describes what landmarks are around you.
Relative Location
These are the lines that run around the earth the equator is one.
Latitude
These are the lines that run up and down on the earth for example the prime meridian.
Longitude
This is a map projection that is an oval that shows continents and lines of latitude and longitude.
Winkel Triple Projection
This is a cylindrical map projection that shows the distance between land.
Mercator
This projection shows the whole world at once this was made as a flat globe.
Robinson Projection
This projection was made to show the actual land area of a continent or country.
Goodes Interpreted Projection
The key is a legend in the corner which shows what some. Things that are added to the map mean.
Key
This is what shows how much a distance for example an inch is equal to how man miles on a map.
Scale
This is the interaction between people by trade or technology.
Globalization
The number of deaths per 1000 people per year
Death Rate
The amount of people that are born per 1000 people per year.
Birth Rate
This is the amount of people that live in a square kilometer or mile.
Population Density