Religion
Jerusalem is a sacred place for what 3 religions?
What is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
The differences between vocabulary, syntax, pronunciation, cadence, and pace
What is Dialect
This system uses satellites to provide the absolute location of places on Earth.
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?
Use lines of equal value to represent data like elevation, barometric pressure or temperature
What is an isoline map?
What are the two branches of Islam?
Sunni and Shia/Shiite
A mutually understood language for bilinguals and trilinguals?
Lingua Franca (Ex: English)
This computer-based system stores, analyzes, and displays geographic data in layers.
What is GIS (Geographic Information System)?
Distorts shape and size of land masses, good direction and maintains distance, used for sea travel.
What is a Mercator Projection?
The founder of Buddhism
Who is Siddhartha Gautama
The blending of European, Amerindian, and African cultures in the New World to create a whole new culture
What is Creolization
This technology uses satellites to collect data about Earth’s surface without direct contact.
What is remote sensing?
A thematic map that uses the size of a political unit to display the value of a piece of data.
What is a cartogram map?
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.
What is a universalizing religion?
The cause of the loss of indigenous languages
What is Colonalism and policies of assimilation
Geographers collect information through these firsthand methods, including field observations, interviews, and landscape analysis.
What is field data collection?
A thematic map which shows data by shading patterns or colors.
What are choropleth maps?
What are the cultural hearths of the following religions: Hindusim, Buddhism, Sikihism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism
South Asia
South Asia
South Asia
Southwest Asia
Southwest Asia
Southwest Asia
The known family of languages that spread outwards (Hint: in Europe)
What is Indo-European Language Family
Businesses and governments often rely on this type of large-scale data, like population counts and demographics, to make decisions.
What is census data?
Rounder in shape with distortion near north and south
What is the Winkel Tripel Projection?