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Geography #3
Grades 4 to 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How close together people live in a particular place | Population Density |
| Tell geographers where most people live within a place or region | Population Distribution or Pattern |
| Urban | Cities like Kansas City and towns like Sedalia |
| Rural | Farms or small towns like Cole Camp or Smithton |
| Another name for city | Metropolis |
| Cities jam packed tightly together | Megalopolis |
| Businesses and industries | Commercial area of a town or city |
| Stores and service businesses located on a main street | Downtown |
| Homes in a town or city | Residential |
| Residential districts | Suburbs |
| Beyond the suburbs and generally sparsely populated | Exurbs |
| How groups of people act, live, eat, believe, and change their environment | Culture |
| What are the top five languages of the world today? | Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Russian, and Spanish |
| Words used in place of standard vocabulary | Slang |
| Variation of a standard language, spoken by a particular group of people; differs from standard language in grammar, vocabulary, or pronunciation | Dialect |
| What are the top five religions of the world today? | Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam |
| Reincarnation | Rebirth of the soul after death |
| Where did Hinduism begin? | India |
| Which religion was begun by the Hebrews? | Judaism (Jewish) |
| Which religion follows the Hindu belief in reincarnation but also believes we should work for Nirvana (inner peace)? | Buddhism |
| Which religion is based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth? | Christianity |
| Which religion is based on the teachings of Muhammad? | Islam |
| What is the name given to the Islamic god? | Allah |
| Usual habits of a group of people | Customs |
| Habits considered to be polite among a group of people | Manners or Norms |
| Communicates the values and beliefs of a culture in what that culture finds beautiful | Art |
| Useful items and the methods used to make them | Crafts |
| Particular style of cooking or preparing food | Cuisine |
| No government or organized authority | Anarchy |
| An alliance in which power rests with the people and is exercised directly by them or their elected representatives | Confederacy |
| A nation in which power rests with the people and is exercised directly by them or their elected representatives | Democracy |
| A nation in which absolute power is controlled by a person whose position is not inherited | Dictatorship |
| A group of nations or territories ruled by one leader or country | Empire |
| A nation ruled by a supreme sovereign, such as a king, queen, or emperor who usually inherits his or her power | Monarchy |
| An assembly of persons, not necessarily elected, who make up the laws of a nation or state | Parliamentary Government |
| A nation without a monarch and, in modern times, usually led by a president | Republic |
| People that hunt, fish, and forage from the wild to find food | Hunter-Gatherers |
| Farmers who raise just enough food to feed themselves and their families | Subsistence Farmers |
| Use lightweight raw materials to make clothes, food products, plants and flowers, furniture, and other consumer goods | Light Industries |
| Produce machines that do big jobs, such as cranes, oil derricks, cars, ships, airplanes, and farm equipment | Heavy Industries |
| Use of scientific knowledge, usually to improve industry and commerce | Technology |
| Farm owned and operated by a group of farmers for the benefit of each individual involved | Cooperative Farm |
| Farm owned by a corporation, usually producing goods for sale in stores under a company label | Corporate Farm |
| Farm that raises crops for harvest, such as vegetables, fruits, or grains | Crop Farm |
| Farm specializing in the production of milk, cheese, butter, and other dairy products | Dairy Farm |
| Farm owned and operated by a family as a private business | Family Farm |
| Farm specializing in growing animals, such as chickens, pigs, cows, goats, or buffalo, for egg, dairy, or meat production | Livestock Farm |
| Farm where both livestock and crops are grown | Mixed Farm |
| Farm specializing in one type of crop or livestock, such as cattle, minks, or deer | Ranch |
| Farm on which food and other products necessary for life are grown by one family for its use | Subsistence Farm |
| Farm specializing in products for sale to a wide market and intended to make profits from sales instead of products for family use | Commercial Farm |
| Large farm or estate in tropical or semitropical areas, often specializing in commercial crops, such as cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cane, coffee, or tea | Plantation |
| Farm close to a city that specializes in vegetables, fruit, and other cash crops | Truck Farm |
| Farm that uses large areas of land, usually arid, for herding goats, camels, sheep, and/or cattle | Herding Farm |
| On which continents do half the labor force work in agriculture? | Asia and Africa |
| What percentage of the labor force works in agriculture in North America, South America, Europe, or Australia? | 12 |
| Iron, lead, gold, silver, platinum | Metals |
| Diamonds, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, amethyst, lapis lazuli, jade | Gemstones |
| Natural gas, oil, coal | Fossil Fuels |
| Rock, sand, gravel | Conglomerates |
| Hardness scale for rocks | Mohs |
| Softest rock | Talc |
| Hardest rock | Diamond |
| Growing, maintaining, and harvesting of trees | Forestry |
| Natural products | Raw Materials |
| Glass, metal, plastic, and paper collected at centers | Recycled Materials |
| Home based manufacturing operations | Cottage Industry |
| Inventor of the steam engine | James Watt (1769) |
| Period of time in Europe and America where items became manufactured by machine instead of by hand | Industrial Revolution |
| Creation of many of the same product at the same time | Mass Production |
| How did the Industrial Revolution affect the culture of America? | People moved from rural areas to cities where the jobs were located. |
| Industrially developed countries | Taiwan and Russia |
| Industrially developing country | Mexico |
| Pre-industrial Economies | Chad and Cambodia |
| Post-industrial Economies | United States and Japan |
| How well the average person is able to find a job, a place or live, food, and an education | Standard of Living |
| System used by a state, region, or country to manage its resources, including its money, labor, and natural and human-made materials | Economy |
| Movement from one place to settle in another | Migration |
| Movement away from one's homeland | Emigration |
| Movement into a new country | Immigration |
| Great Lake north of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Lake Superior |
| Great Lake between Michigan and Wisconsin | Lake Michigan |
| Great Lake northeast of Michigan (above the mitten) | Lake Huron |
| Great Lake northeast of Ohio and Pennsylvania | Lake Erie |
| Great Lake directly west of New York | Lake Ontario |
| Gulf south of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama | Gulf of Mexico |
| River that connects the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Ontario | St. Lawrence River |
| River that forms the eastern border of Missouri | Mississippi River |
| River that connects Kansas City to St. Louis | Missouri River |
| Which European country was the first to settle in Missouri? | French |
| What were the two locations in Missouri that were the "jumping off" points for the Oregon Trail? | Independence, Missouri and St. Joseph, Missouri |
| Where was the home base of the Pony Express? | St. Joseph, Missouri |
| What famous cartoonist grew up in Missouri? | Walt Disney |
| What famous World War I general grew up in Missouri? | John J. Pershing |
| When did the New Madrid Earthquake occur? | 1811 |
| Who was Missouri's famous outlaw? | Jesse James |
| Where did the first World's Fair open in 1904? | St. Louis |
| The only president from Missouri | Harry S. Truman |
| Missouri artist who painted murals on the capitol walls | Thomas Hart Benton |
| Missouri author who described her life growing up in the prairie states | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Missouri entrepreneur who created J. C. Penney | James Cash |
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