ESPN Study Guide

Directions: define the following terms and give examples. Once complete, review the
following information. You will have a test over the information on 10/31 (purple) or 11/1 (red)

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Environment
Understand how to analyze a map:

How do certain landforms get their shape? (What causes the creation of mountains,
islands, volcanoes, earthquakes?)
What environmental factors influence people to settle in regions and create cities? In
other words, what environments and resources do people need?

Social
Culture traits-

Cultural Diffusion-

Monotheism -

Polytheism -

(Have a general understanding of important religious beliefs)

Political
Direct Democracy vs. Representative Democracy

Monarchy vs. Constitutional Monarchy

Dictatorship

Common rights in a limited government

Common rights in an unlimited government

Understand how to analyze a political cartoon

EconomicsMarket Economy (free enterprise system)

Command (communism)

Traditional

Manufacturing - goods made by using machines

Industrialized

Developing

Four Factors of production- What are they? How do they relate to each other? What
happens if one or more is missing in a country?

Be able to use social and economic factors to identify a countrys standard of living

What do we do to help us understand a reading source?

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