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