Warm Up: Copy this list of Unit 1 Test concepts in your I.S.N.

Geography:

• Land forms, natural resources, and climate can determine the jobs and economy in an area. For example, if you live near the Gulf of Mexico, like we do, the natural resources that the water provides can create jobs.

Movement

• Push factors are bad things that make people leave a place, like war, pollution, no jobs, and crime/violence

• Pull factors are good things that make people want to go to a place, like jobs, good schools, education, and freedoms

Transportation

• Barriers slow down transportation

• Corridors speed up transportation

Global Interdependence:

• When one country depends on another country for goods, services, natural resources, or markets to sell goods in, it is called Global Interdependence.

Human Environment Interaction• Positive (good) human-environment

interaction: recycling, irrigation, homes, schools, roads

• Negative (bad) human-environment interaction: hurricane, pollution, deforestation, oil spills

Culture:

Traits:• Specific foods, clothing,

beliefs, languages

Region:• An area that shares the

same culture traits

Spanish, French, German

Cultural Diffusion:

• When one culture uses something from another culture.

Urban: Rural:

TYPES OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS•Governments can be placed into two

categories: Limited and Unlimited•Limited Government: Everyone,

including all authority figures, must obey laws. Constitutions, statements of rights, or other laws define the limits of those in power so they cannot take advantage of their elected, appointed, or inherited positions.

•Unlimited Government: Control is placed solely with the ruler and his/her appointees, and there are no limits imposed on his/her authority.

A type of dictatorshipA type of democracy

Political System Characteristics Type of Government

Communist * the government owns all property and makes nearly all decisions for the citizens.

 

Dictatorship * rule by an individual (often a tyrant)* individual rights do not exist

 

Oligarchy * rule by few (often a family)* individual rights do not exist

 

Republic * president is elected* laws are made by Congress which represent all the

people

 

Monarchy * rule by one (right to rule usually inherited)* individual rights do not exist

 

Constitutional Monarchy

* monarch with symbolic power* rule by representatives elected by the people* individual rights protected

 

Democracy * rule by the people* individual rights protected

 

Totalitarian * a dictator or a small group of leaders control all aspects of people’s lives.

 

Economic Development:• Climate and natural resources will determine

the job opportunities in an area/country. What jobs would you find here?

Economic Activity Levels:• Agricultural- the gathering of raw materials• Manufacturing- the manufacture of raw materials

into products to be used• Wholesale- when and where businesses shop• Retail – when and where consumers shop

• Goods are_____________________________?• Services______________________________?• What is an industry?

Problem Vocabulary:• Persecution-to be mean to someone because of

what they believe or who they are• Industry-manufacturing or a business of some

type• Impact-has an effect upon• Famine-starving, not enough food• Debris-garbage or destroyed materials• Harvesting-collecting or gathering grown food• Ethnic-different cultural groups• Regard-concern for