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| Question | Answer |
| Culture | is a particular society that has its own beliefs, ways of life, art, and etc |
| 3 Examples of Cultural Elements | At my house, we are muslims, we speak arabic, we eat molohaya, and listen to arabic music (nancy) |
| Cultural Borrowing | taking ideas and practices from another culture, ethic group or religion |
| Cultural Diffusion | is what happens when the cultural beliefs and social activities are spread through different religions and nationalities |
| Geography | the study of the world's environments, cultures, people, and land |
| 5 themes of Geography | 1) Location: Forestwood Middle School 2) Place: Texas, Florida 3) Human Environment: road, schools 4) Movement: vehicles, airplanes 5) Region: mountains, rivers |
| Absolute Location | is a point on the earth's surface expressed by a coordinate system; latitude and longitude. It's an exact location |
| Relative Location | is a point or place in a relation to another point or place |
| Compass Rose | a circle graduated to degrees or quarters and printed on a chart to show direction |
| Map Scale | refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground |
| Map Key (Legend) | is included with a map to unlock it. It gives you information needed for the map to make sense |
| Hemisphere | is a half of the earth. It divided into northern and southern halves by the equator or into western and eastern halves by the prime meridian |
| Line of Latitude | measures north and south positions between the north and south poles. Lines of Latitude are all parallel to each other (Parallels) |
| Equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0° |
| Lines of Longitude (Meridians) | run between the north and south poles. They measure east-west position. |
| Prime Meridian | the 0° meridian from which the other meridians or lines of longitude are calculated, usually taken to pass through Greenwich |
| Government | is a group of people that govern a community or unit |
| Anarchy | is the absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual |
| Dictatorship | is a government where one person rules with complete authority |
| Absolute Monarchy | is a government ruled by a king or queen, and is not bound by a constitution |
| Constitutional Monarchy | is a government ruled by a king and queen but the Parliament makes the law |
| Oligarchy | is a government ruled by a group of people |
| Democracy | is a governing system in which a country's people elect their leaders and rule by majority |
| Democratic Republic (United States of America) | is a country that is both a republic and a democracy. Power comes from the people and they select the rulers |
| Limited Government | is a government in which everyone, including those in authority, must obey the laws. |
| Unlimited Government | is a government in which no limits are imposed on the ruler's authority. The leaders don't have to follow the same laws as everyone else. |
| Economy | is the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region |
| Traditional Economy | is a system in which traditions, customs, and beliefs shape the goods and the services produced, as well as the rules and ways of their distribution |
| Command Economy | is an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined by a government |
| Free Market Economy | is a system in which the prices for goods and services are set freely between buyers and sellers. Government does not interfere |
| Mixed Economy | is a system that combines free economy and economies run by the government |
| Industrialized Nation | a highly developed economy and also advanced technologically (United States) |
| Developing Nation | is a nation where they depend on farming and are poor |
| 3 Main Religions | 1) Judaism 2) Islam 3) Christianity |
| Judiasm | Oldest Torah (book) Jerusalem (location) Jews (people) |
| Islam | Youngest and fastest growing Qu'ran (book) Jerusalem and Mecca (location) Muslim (people) |
| Christianity | Largest Bible (book) Jerusalem (location) Christians (people) |
| 3 Branches of Government | 1) Legislative 2) Executive 3) Judicial |
| Legislative | the congress makes the laws (House of Representatives and Senate) |
| Executive | the president carries out the laws and recommends new ones |
| Judicial | the Supreme Court interprets and reviews the laws and rules between people |
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