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Chapt 1-2 7th grd SS
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the beliefs, customs, and ways of living shared by a group of people? | Culture |
| What are the kinds of food, clothing, beliefs, languages, or tools shared by a culture? | Culture traits |
| What is the study of how people manage their resources? | Economics |
| What is the study of people within their environment? | Geography |
| What term means the conflict between unlimited desires and limited resources? | Scarcity |
| What are the gifts of nature, human skills, and tools that people use to fulfill their needs? | Resources |
| The effect that one area of the world has on another is called what? | Interdependence |
| A record of the past is called what? | History |
| Which people and groups make and carry out laws for a society? | Government |
| What is a legal member of a country? | A citizen |
| What is the best type of map projection? | Robinson |
| Give one reason interdependence between cultural regions has increased. | As a result of air transportation |
| A hemisphere is what fraction of the Earth? | One-half |
| On a map, what does scale determine? | The amount of detail the map can show |
| What is a mapmaker called? | A cartographer |
| When you move from one place to another, what do you do? | You migrate |
| Most maps are what kind of map? | Political |
| Skill: Be able to locate these on a map | 0° longitude, the Equator, 20° South latitude |
| What theme of geography is an area that shares similar cultural, human, or natural traits? | Region |
| What theme of geography describes location and uses both natural and human characteristics | Place |
| What theme of geography is the moving of people from one place to another | Movement |
| What theme of geography is the way that humans change and are changed by their environment | Human Environment Interaction |
| What theme of geography is relative and absolute location? | Location |
| What is absolute location? | Gives an exact position with GPS coordinates or an address |
| What is relative location? | Describes where something is in comparison with something else |