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Geography
Th study of earth & its peoples, places, and environments.
Relative Location
Location of a place compared to another place.
Absolute location
Exact location on earth. Found using latitude (east/east lines) and Longitude (north/south lines)
Environment
Natural surroundings.
Movement
How and why people, ideas, products, and information move.
Climate zone
Similar patterns of temperature and precipitation.
Contiental shelf
Underwater plains that borders a continent. Usually ends at cliffs or downward slopes to the ocean floor.
Aquifers
Underground rock layers through which water flows.
Death rate
The number of deaths compared to the number of individuals in a population at a given time.
Birth rate
The number of births compared to the number of individuals in a population at a given time.
Doubling time
The number of years it takes a population to double in size.
Culture
Se of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people.
Social groups
Gender, age, religion, socio-economic: male/female, young/old.
Ethnic group
A group of people with a common racial, national, tribal, religious, or cultural background.
Language
Powerful form of communication.
Dialect
Regional variety of language with unique features (vocab, grammer, pronunciation.)
History
Events that shape our view of ourselves and others.
Arts and Sports
Form of expression: visual and performing.
Government
Rules and laws that give order and provide protection.
Economy
Controls use of resources and define how goods are produced and distributed to meet needs.
Cultural region
Geographic area in which people have certain traits in common.
Natural resources
Material from earth.
Human resources
Labor, skills talent from people.
Renewable
resources that can be totally replaced or are always available.
Nonrenewable
Resources that are limited and can not be replaced.
Economic system
What goods and services will be provided? How will it be produced? Who gets it?
Traditional economy
Based on custom/tradition. Resources are distributed through families. Farming/fishing/herding
Command economy
Means of production are publicly owned. Government makes decisions on production and distribution (communism.)
Mixed economy
Mix of two types of economies.
Export
Selling to other countries.
Import
Buying from other countries.
Free trade
No taxes or limits on trade.
Sustainability
Creating conditions where all natural resources for meeting the needs of society are available.
Northern European plain
Large lowland plain where most of Western Europe lies.
Dikes
Walls/barriers to hold back the waters of the North sea.
Polders
Dutch name for land reclaimed from the sea.
Peat
Decaying plant matter, burned for fuel.
Deciduous
trees that lose their leaves in the fall.
Coniferous
Trees that grow in cooler areas and keep their leaves in winter.
Medieval times/middle ages
Transition period from ancient to modern times.
Crusade
Religious war
The black death
A plague.
Indulgences
Money to pardon a person's sins.
Industrial Revolution
Moving from an agricultural to industry based society.
Autobahns
Superhighways for travel.
Postindustrial economy
Depends more on service than industry.
