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FTCE Soc Sci 6-12
Study Guide for FTCE Social Science 6 -12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Relative Location | "on the beaches of Florida" in relation to a location. |
| Absolute Location | An exact location "Clearwater is located in pinellas county on the west coast of florida in the United States" |
| Place | Has bothe human and physical characteristics. For ex. mountains, rivers, soil, beaches, and wildlife. Human characteristics are derived from the ideas and actions of people that result in changes to the environment, such as buildings roads, clothing,food |
| Human-environmental interaction | Humans adapt to the environmentHumans modify the environmentHumans depend on the environment |
| Movement | Movement of products, interactions with people, vacations, communication |
| Regions | Areas that have unifying characteristics(common language, culture, government) |
| Formal Regions | Defined by government or administrative boundaries.(United State, Alabama, Brazil). Can also be physical suck as the Rockies and the Great Lakes |
| Functional Regions | Defined by a function. For example cell phone service are or an area served by bank branches. If the function ceases the region no longer exists. |
| Vernancular Regions | are loosley defined by people's perceptions. Examples The Deep South, Eastern Europe, and the middle east |
| Weather | the day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere. Includes percipitation, temperature and wind. |
| Climate | is weater averaged over time for a specificregion or location. |
| Latitude | Temp range increases with distance from the equator. Temp decrease as you move way from the equator |
| Altitude | Temp decrease with height. The air is less dense and cannot hold heat as easily |
| Winds | If winds are warm, they have been blown from a hot area and will raise temp. If winds have been blown from cold areas, they will lower temps. |
| Distance from the sea, or continentality | land heats and cools faster than does the sea. coastal areas have a lower temp range than do inland areas. on the coast, winters are mild and summers are cool. |
| Aspect | Slopes facing the sun are warmer than those that are not. Thus, south-facing slopes in the northern hemisphere are usually warm. however slopes facing north in the southern hemisphere are warmest |
| Four Major Hemisheres | Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern. It can also can be divide into seven continents Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Antactica |
| Cultural Geography | the study of a country's culture, customs, foods, clothing, music, architecture, traditions, religions, and languages. |
| Market Economy | Relies largely on market forces to allocate resources and goods and to determinee the price and quantity of each good that will be produced |
| Economics | is the science that deals with the production, allocation, and use of goods and services |
| Resources factors of production | labor capital land entrepreneurship |
| Scarcity | happens when a limited supply of goods and service comes up against an ever-increasing demand for it. |
| Opportunity Cost | is the cost we pay when we give up something to get something else |
| Three basic economic questions | What to produce, how to produce, for whom to produce |
| Planned economy | Socialistic Economy includes countries such as Japan, China, and Vietnam |
| Mixed Economy | economic systems that stray omr the ideals of either the market economy or the planned economy and mix elements of each |
| Microeconomics | the study of the economic behavior of small economic groups such as firms and families, is the largest fieldsof economics. |
| Macroeconomics | is the study of the elements of economics on the national level |
| Perfect competition | is largely a theorecticaal extreme most closely found in agriculture. product are relatively identical and sellers have no control over price |
| Barrier to entry | is anything that makes it difficult forfirms to enter he industry. |
| Monopoly | one firm controls the price, that firm is equal to an industry, and barriers to entry are very high Monopolies are illegal in the United states |
| Oligopoly | is a market for in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of sellers (steel and automobile industry) |
| GDP | the monetary value o all the finished goods and services produced within a countries borders in a specific period |
| Government Spending Policies | influence macroeconomic conditions and are intended to control the economy through measures like taxation and interest rates |
| Monetary Policy | is the process by which government, central bank, or monetart authority manages the money supply to achieve specific goals |
| Discount Rate | the interest rate a federal reserve bank charges eligible financial institutions to borrow funds on a short term basis |
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