Place
Place is about what makes one location ________________.
What is special or unique?
A region is a group of places that ___________ important features.
What is share?
Movement is about how __________, goods, and _________ travel or spread from one place to another.
What are people and ideas?
Human Systems are the ways people _________ their lives and interact with each other.
What is organize?
Human Interaction with the Environment is about how people and the natural world affect each other. People ________ on nature, adapt to it, modify it, use its resources, and protect it.
What is depend?
Mountains, rivers, and climate are examples of these types of characteristics of a place.
What are physical characteristics?
The Sahara Desert would be an example of this type of region.
What is a formal region?
These are reasons people are drawn to a new place.
What are pull factors?
Factories, farms, and stores are examples of this part of human systems.
What is economic activity?
People build houses on stilts in areas that frequently flood. Which part of human-environment interaction does this demonstrate?
What is adapting to the environment?
A city's buildings, language, and popular foods are examples of these types of characteristics.
What are human characteristics?
"The Middle East" is an example of this type of region.
What is a perceptual region?
A family moves to another country to find better-paying jobs. What type of pull factor attracts the family?
What is an economic pull factor?
A country creates laws, collects taxes, and provides public services. Which part of human systems does this demonstrate?
What is political organization or government?
Farmers clear forests to create farmland. Identify the type of human-environment interaction and one possible environmental consequence.
What is modifying the environment?
Three examples of physical characteristics in Maryland.
Answers will vary.
A pizza delivery service is an example of this type of region.
What is a functional region?
A country sells its coffee to another country. What is this type of trade called?
What is an export?
A country develops a new irrigation technology that allows farmers to grow more food in dry areas. Which two parts of human systems are connected?
What are technological innovations and economic activity?
People depend on rivers for drinking water and fishing. Which part of human-environment interaction does this show?
What is depending on the environment?
Answers will vary.
Maryland is part of these three regions.
East Coast
Mid-Atlantic
Southeast
Northeast
Appalachian
These are the five different categories of push and pull factors.
Economic
Political
Environmental
Social
Demographic
A city grows rapidly because factories create jobs. More people move there, so the government builds roads, schools, and housing. Explain how at least three parts of human systems are connected.
What are economic activity, settlement patterns, and government or infrastructure working together as the city grows?
A growing city removes trees to build more homes and roads. Later, the city experiences more flooding and hotter summer temperatures. Explain how the city's actions changed the environment and how the environment affected people in return.
Removing trees and adding paved surfaces modified the environment. Less water can soak into the ground, increasing flood risk, and fewer trees provide shade, contributing to higher temperatures.