Colegio Dominico Americano

World Geography

7th grade

1^st Semester study guide

                  School year 2007-2008

Chapter One

Welcome to the World

• The world at your finger tips
• Landforms and Bodies of Water

 

Chapter Two

The Geographer tools

• The Five Themes of Geography

Location

  Place

  Region

  Movement

  Human-Environment interaction

 

• Skill builder: Latitude and Longitude

Parallel

South and North poles

Degrees

Equator

Prime meridian

 

• The Geographers tools

Maps

Globes

 

 

Chapter 3

The Physical Geography of the United States and Canada

• The regions of the United States

Atlantic Coastal Plains

Appalachian Mountains

Central Lowlands

Great Plains

The Rocky Mountain

Intermountain

Canadian Shield or Laurentian Plateau

• Physical processes that shape the land
• Vegetation Zone

 

Chapter 4

The United States Today

• A Constitutional Democracy
• The United States Economy

 

 

Chapter 5

Canada Today

• Immigrant Roots
• A Constitutional Monarchy
• Canada’s Economy

 

 

Global Studies Vocabulary

1.  history

2.  geography

3.  government

4.  culture region

5.  interdependence

6.  absolute location

7.  latitude

8.  longitude

9.  relative

10.                                              cartographer

11.                                              landform

12.                                              erosion

13.                                              river system

14.                                              precipitation

15.                                              vegetation

16.                                              climate

17.                                              economy

18.                                              immigrant

19.                                              equal opportunity

20.                                              democracy

21.                                              political process

22.                                              United States Constitution

23.                                              limited government

24.                                              unlimited government

25.                                              constitutional amendment

26.                                              Bill of Rights

27.                                              federal government

28.                                              multiculturalism

29.                                              transportation barrier

30.                                              national identity