Unit 3 Lesson 1 Review

A set of shared mental rules about how people should behave (e.g.,how they should plant crops, build houses, make art, write laws, practice religions beliefs)

• Culture Shock

• Culture

• Cultural Adaptation

What happens when you are in a place where your culture (your tools and ideas about how to behave) does not fit the conditions around you

• Culture Shock

• Culture

• Cultural Adaptation

Changing your ideas and tools to fit the conditions around you better (e.g.,people invent tools to deal with a drier environment)

• Culture Shock

• Culture

• Cultural Adaptation

A measure that you use to divide things into groups, (putting places into a group because they are alike in some way--e.g., a group of places that have low precipitation or a group of places that have high population density)

• Region

• Regionalization

• Criterion

The process of dividing a large area into smaller areas, where each small area is a group of places that are alike in some way and also near each other

• Region

• Regionalization

• Criterion

A group of places that are similar to each other in some way and also near each other

• Region

• Regionalization

• Criterion

winds that spin at high speed (sometimes destructive speed), warm air coming from the Gulf of Mexico meets cold air coming fro northern North America)

• Earthquake

• Tornadoes

• Volcanoes

• Hurricanes

Storms with strong, violent winds that bring flooding to coastal areas near oceans

• Earthquake

• Tornadoes

• Volcanoes

• Hurricanes

a violent shaking of the ground that sometimes causes destruction of buildings and roads and sometimes bends or breaks rock layers and lifts mountains

• Earthquake

• Tornadoes

• Volcanoes

• Hurricanes

Mountains that have risen after explosions of hot lava and hot glasses that move upward from deep in the earth

• Earthquake

• Tornadoes

• Volcanoes

• Hurricanes