1. Geography Review

2. Political and Economic Systems
5 Themes
Maps
Political and Economic Systems
Earth and Sun
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3. Helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place
What is movement?
Helps explain how people, goods,
and ideas get from one place
to another.
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4. Shows continents, countries, states, and provinces
What are political maps?
Shows continents, countries, states, and provinces
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5. What is Capitalism?
An economic system in which private individuals or private groups of people own most businesses
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6. The path one body makes as it circles around another
What is an orbit?
The path one body makes as it circles around another
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7. An example is cutting trails into the mountainside.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
An example is cutting trails into
the mountainside.
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8. What is a key?
Section of a map that explains the symbols and shading on a map; a legend
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9. Organizations that set up and enforce laws
What is government?
Organizations that set up and enforce laws
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10. What is a hemisphere?
One half of Earth
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11. and physical features at a
What is Place?
The human
and physical features at a
specific location.
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12. North, South, East, and West
What are cardinal directions?
North, South, East, and West
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13. What is an economy?
A system for producing, distributing, consuming, and owning goods, services, and wealth
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14. June 21st when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer
What is the summer solstice?
June 21st when the sun is directly
over the Tropic of Cancer
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15. Both cardinal and intermediate directions are used to describe
What is Location?
Both cardinal and intermediate
directions are used to describe
this theme.
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16. A method of mapping Earth
What is a projection?
A method of mapping Earth
on a flat surface
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17. What is Communism?
An economic system in which the government owns all large businesses and most of the country’s land
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18. An imaginary line running through Earth
What is an axis?
An imaginary line running through Earth
between the North and South poles
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19. Examples are a school district,
What is a region?
Examples are a school district,
Maryland, and the South
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20. A map that shows hills, plains
What is a physical map?
A map that shows hills, plains
elevation, and relief.
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21. A nation with few industries and simple technology
What is a developing nation?
A nation with few industries and simple technology
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22. One revolution: 365 ¼ days:: one rotation: ___
What is 1 day/24 hours?
One revolution: 365 ¼ days:: one rotation: ___
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