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Understanding Geography: Themes and Systems

Explore movement, political maps, capitalism, and more. Learn about Earth's orbit, human-environment interaction, and economic systems like communism and capitalism. Discover cardinal directions and regions on physical maps.

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Understanding Geography: Themes and Systems

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  1. Geography Review

  2. 5 Themes Maps Political and Economic Systems Earth and Sun 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500

  3. Row 1, Col 1 What is movement? Helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.

  4. 1,2 What are political maps? Shows continents, countries, states, and provinces

  5. 1,3 What is Capitalism? An economic system in which private individuals or private groups of people own most businesses

  6. 1,4 What is an orbit? The path one body makes as it circles around another

  7. 2,1 What is Human-Environment Interaction? An example is cutting trails into the mountainside.

  8. 2,2 What is a key? Section of a map that explains the symbols and shading on a map; a legend

  9. 2,3 What is government? Organizations that set up and enforce laws

  10. 2,4 What is a hemisphere? One half of Earth

  11. 3,1 What is Place? The human and physical features at a specific location.

  12. 3,2 What are cardinal directions? North, South, East, and West

  13. 3,3 What is an economy? A system for producing, distributing, consuming, and owning goods, services, and wealth

  14. 3,4 What is the summer solstice? June 21st when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer

  15. 4,1 What is Location? Both cardinal and intermediate directions are used to describe this theme.

  16. 4,2 What is a projection? A method of mapping Earth on a flat surface

  17. 4,3 What is Communism? An economic system in which the government owns all large businesses and most of the country’s land

  18. 4,4 What is an axis? An imaginary line running through Earth between the North and South poles

  19. 5,1 What is a region? Examples are a school district, Maryland, and the South

  20. 5,2 What is a physical map? A map that shows hills, plains elevation, and relief.

  21. 5,3 What is a developing nation? A nation with few industries and simple technology

  22. 5,4 What is 1 day/24 hours? One revolution: 365 ¼ days:: one rotation: ___

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