Unit One Study Guide

Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper!

1. Describe each of the 5 themes of geography and give an example for each.

2. What is the Prime Meridian?

3. What is the Equator?

4. What are tectonic plates? What does their movement cause?

5. What is the Ring of Fire? What would you expect to happen there?

6. What is a tsunami? What causes them?

7. What are latitude and longitude lines?

8. Explain the difference between a physical, political, cholorpleth, and cartogram maps.

9. Describe the Earth’s rotation. What does it cause?

10. How long does it take for the earth to revolve around the sun?

11. What causes Earth’s seasons?

12. What is the difference between weather and climate?

13. What are the factors causing weather?

14. Define hurricane.

15. Define blizzard.

16. What are the factors causing climate?

17. What are the zones of latitude, what kind of climate do you find in each?

18. What how are the climate zones of desert, tropical wet, tundra, marine west coast and tropical wet/dry defined?

19. Define the following landforms

20. What is a dialect? What can cause them?

21. What is the spread of ideas and customs from one society to another?

22. What is acculturation?

23. What does monotheism, polytheisms, and animistic mean?

24. Define culture.

25. What is the difference between material and nonmaterial culture?

26. Define state and nation.

27. How do you calculate population density?

28. Define birth rate and death rate. How do these two numbers affect a country’s population?

29. Define communism

30. Explain the difference between a command and market economy.

31. What is infrastructure?

32. What is the difference between GDP and GNP?