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Unit 1 and 2 Review- KEY

Use your Unit 1 Folder and notes from Unit 2 to answer the following.

  1. The study of the earth and everything on it is geography.
  2. An exact location using latitude and longitude is known as absolute location.
  3. Relative location describes a location in relation to another place.
  4. Human-Environment Interaction is how people interact and change their environment.
  5. The amount a country makes on the sale of goods and services in a specific time is known as the Gross Domestic Product.
  1. Birth Rate is the number of livebirths per year.
  2. Literacy Rate is the percentage of people who can read and write.
  3. The Economic Indicators show how well developed a country is when their numbers are high.
  1. Culture is the behavior and beliefs of a particular social, ethnic or age group.
  2. The spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point is known as cultural diffusion.
  1. Multi-culturalism, the different cultures within a society, means many cultures.
  1. A region having a distinct pattern of culture is known as cultural region.
  1. Longitude lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole and are labeled to 180° east or west of the Prime Meridian.
  1. Latitude lines are parallel lines that go around the earth and are measured 0° to 90° north or south of the Equator.
  1. In an unlimited government, rulers make the laws but do not have to obey them.
  2. King George III was the king of who taxed “the people” of England.
  3. Citizens have a say in what happens in the government by voting in a limited government.
  1. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are examples of unalienable rights and are also known as human rights.
  1. A Representative Democracy is an example of a limitedgovernment.
  2. Taxation without Representation and Quartering were two of the grievances colonists had against the King of England.
  1. Government under the control of one all-powerful leader is a dictatorship.
  2. In a limited government the Constitution is a statement of rights that protects the people.
  1. The king or queen is the official head of state in a Constitutional Monarchy, but elected officials run the government.
  1. The king or queen governs with complete power and their power is inherited in an AbsoluteMonarchy.
  1. In an unlimited government, the citizens donot have a say in what happens in the government.
  1. The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments of the Constitution.
  1. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. It was adopted on July 4, 1776.
  1. George Washington was the first president of the United States of America.
  2. Theseven continents of the world are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America.
  1. There are four major oceans on our test. The largest ocean is the Pacific Ocean.