World Geography Map & Match Study Guide

Tropic of Cancer

23.44 degrees north

Tropic of Capricorn

23.44 degrees south

Antarctic Circle

65.56 degrees south

Arctic Circle

9.65.56 degrees north

MDC

A country with an annual per capita GDP (PPP) greater than or equal to $17,000.

Car and Trade

A mechanism that lets countries that have an excess of emission units (emissions permitted to them, but not use sell this excess capacity to countries that are over their targets.

PPP

Conversion factors that account for the differences in the relative prices of goods and services, allowing for a basic comparison of the real output among countries.

Isarithmic

Does not use political units, uses lines or colors to join points of equal value across the mapped area.

Subarctic

Experiences short, mild summers and long, cold, severe winters and low annual precipitation.

Oceanic

Is mild year-round, with temperatures and precipitation roughly equal in each season. Much of Europe has this.

Desert

Is very dry year-round, with low annual precipitation.

Mitigation

Measures that aims to avoid the adverse impacts of climate change in the long term and is seen as a problem that world's richer countries plus China should deal with because they are the main producers of greenhouse gases.

Adaptation

Measures that are designed to cope with and reduce the unavoidable impacts of climate change in the short and medium terms and is typically seen as a problem for the poorer countries, which are expected to suffer the most free climate change.

Humid Subtropical

Receives abundant precipitation, spread roughly evenly throughout the year, and features hot and muggy summers and mild winters with occasional cold snap.

Humid Continental

Receives year-round precipitation and has large temperature swings between its cold winters and the often muggy summers.

Choropleth

The most common type of thematic map, displays data by filling in political units with differing colors.

GNI

The total output of goods and services that a country produces for home use in a year, plus income from abroad sources such as rents, profits, and labor.

GNP

The total output of goods and services that a country produces for home use in a year, plus the foreign output by domestically owned producers.

GDP

The total output of goods and services that a country produces for home use in a year.

Clean Development Mechanism

This allows a wealthier Annex I country can earn emissions units by investing in emission-reduction projects in poorer country, and use those certified emission reduction (cer) credits to meet part of its overall emission reduction target.

Joint Implementation

This allows an Annex I country to earn emission reduction units (ERUs) by investing in emission reduction in a Annex I country.

Flow

Uses arrows of various widths to indicate the movement of people or goods from one area to another.

Dot Density

Uses dots to represent a stated amount of some phenomenon within a political unit.

Graduated Symbol

Uses simple symbols such as circle or bar graphs, scaled proportionally to the quantity of the attribute being made.

Equator

Zero degrees