Cheatography
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studying sheet for finals
This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
five themes of geography
location |
Where is it? two types of place: absolute location (adress or coordinantes) and Relative location (in relation to something else {for example my house is five minutes away from stevens high school}) |
place |
What is it like there? types of place: human characters (activities, and culture) and physical characteristics (landforms, plants, animals) |
human/enviroment interaction |
how do humans and the enviroment affect each other? types of human enviroment interaction: human reaction to the enviroment (clothing, ac or heating), human impact on the enviroment(irrigation,pollution),and human rely on the enviroment(mining,drinking water,non renewable resources) |
movement |
types of movement: people(transportation), ideas(communication), and migration(people moving from one place to another |
region |
smaller divisions/peices and how its similar to itself and the difference from another region |
these all play an important role in how the world has evolved today and how it's functioning/working.
iraqs religious and ethnic groups
Shi'ite
-beleive that islam should be descendants of muhammad
-60% of iraqs population |
Sunni
-beleive that Islams leader should be chosen from people who are qualified
-75% of the worlds muslims |
kurds
-are sunnis but have history,language,and culture
-these all differ from arabic neighbors |
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Russain and European republics
size and extreme climates affected and shaped Russia by having so many different types of climate which usually means what kind of pepole and farming there is. |
Vocab:
permafrost- is when the ground is permanatly frozen
tundra- flat land found in artic and subartic regions
taiga- forest area with mostly evergreens
landmass-continuous extent of land
steppes-very large plains |
Conflicts between US and Russia fought in other countries
-koera
-vietnam {{nl}] -miiddle east
-latin america |
The soviet union dismanteled in 1991 when the republics wanted independence |
Vladimir Puten is the president of russia, there are still many issues with poverty
Russia claims they have a Democracy but it's turning into capitalism |
Main religions
Judism |
smaller divisions/peices and how its similar to itself and the difference from another region |
christianity |
-2000 years old
-biggest religion with 2.2 billion beleivers
-jesus christ is the son of God
-christain book is called the bible
-normal day of worship is on Sunday |
Islam |
-second biggest religion with over 1 billion beleivers
-called "muslims"
-the scripture is called holy qur'an
-place of worship is a mosque
-pray five times a day
-worship is on friday
-religious leader is called Amam |
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