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Global Studies Semester 1 Final Study Guide

Unit 1: Mapping
1. Cylindrical
2. dividing line for the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
3. a collection of places with similar characteristics
4. formal region
5. Longitude lines run north and south from the Poles. Latitude lines c ircle the Earth parallel to
the Equator.
6. Cities and their surrounding urbanized areas
7. places where early centers of civilization influenced their surroundings
8. a political map
9. map projection
10. to identify the precise location of any place on Earth
11. absolute and relative
12. physical maps
13. flow-line maps
14. to determine which area has the greater need for services
15. countries must trade with each other
Unit 2: Earth Science
16. Weather is a short-term aspect of climate.
17. climate regions
18. evaporation, condensation, precipitation
19. terrestrial planets, gas giant planets, and dwarf planets
T: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars GG: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune D: Ceres, Pluto
20. the tilt of Earth
21. Crust: rocky outer layer, Mantle: sludgy middle layer made of magma, Core: super hot
innermost layer
22. continents are continually moving.
23. currents in Earths mantle
24. faults
25. physical and chemical
26. surface by wind, glaciers, and moving water
27. The process of desalination is expensive.
28. warm Earth
Unit 3: North America
29. near the U.S.-Canada border
30. traditional industrial areas of the United States with many abandoned factories and steel
mills
31. metropolitan areas
32. Minnesota
33. to identify the precise location of any place on Earth (oops, repeat)
34. Quebec
35. Canada, the United States, and Mexico
36. the Pacific Ocean
37. Canadian Shield
38. Glaciers carved basins out of bedrock.
39. the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean
40. tall grasses
41. settlers broke up the sod to grow crops
42.immigrants
43. to seek political and religious freedom or to flee wars and natural disasters
44. France
45. Large supplies of coal made steam power cheap.
46. the American Civil War
47. migrated to Canada
48. Vikings
49. market economy
50. service industries
51. industrialization of cities
Unit 4: South America
52. an autocracy
53. Andes
54. Amazon rain forest
55. Mexico
56. Mexico and the United States
57. volcanic peaks
58. elevation
59. Maya, Aztec, and Inca
60. bullfighting
61. the government.
62. foreign-owned factories
63. commercial logging operations
64. sustainable development
65. agricultural, industrial, information revolutions
Unit 5: Russia
66. Russia's air, water, and soil were damaged
67. a saltwater lake that is connected to Moscow by the Volga River
68. Slavs
69. A fire in 1986 in the nuclear reactor released tons of radioactive particles into the local
environment.
70. coniferous forest
71. the majority of Russias people live there
72. Ural Mountains
73. a permanently frozen layer of soil that lies beneath the surface of the ground
74. Karl Marx
75. it holds one-fifth of the world's freshwater
Unit 6: Europe
76. they were defeated in part by Russia's harsh winter
77. Brussels
78. industrialization during communism
79. have a common language, history, and place of origin
80. to use a common currency; to have trade and employment freedom; to clean up pollution
81. flourishing European music, literature, and arts
82. Italy, France, and Spain
83. the division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
84. fjords
85. warm for its latitude because of Atlantic winds blowing from the Gulf Stream
86. England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
87. Martin Luther
88. the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews and others during World War II
89. Greece and Rome
90. the Balkan Peninsula
91. service industries

EXTRA QUESTIONS:
What does movement typically affect in a human system?
Cultures

What do geographers study when they want to understand how a mountain range affects
settlement?
human-environment interaction

The part of the Earths surface that is land is called the?

Lithosphere

The Volga River connects Moscow with which body of water?

Caspian Sea