Location
The continent where the United States is located.
What is North America?
What are the two main types of characteristics that define the theme of place in geography?
What are physical characteristics and human characteristics?
Wearing a heavy coat when it snows is an example of humans doing this to their environment.
What is adapting
People, goods, and _______ are the three main things that move from place to place.
What are ideas
This theme is an area with common physical or cultural features
what is region
This type of location pinpoints an exact spot on Earth using global coordinates like latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
If you describe the land as being hilly, rocky, or having a desert climate, you are describing the ____________ characteristics of a place.
What are physical?
Drinking water from a local river or growing crops using natural rainfall.
What is depending on the environment
When a new fashion trend, recipe, or song spreads from one group of people to another around the world, it is called cultural ___________.
what is spread of ideas.
This is a geographic region it consists of United States, Canada, Greenland, and Mexico
What is North America?
If a traveler tells you that the local library is "two blocks past the grocery store and right next to the park," they are giving you this type of location.
What is relative location?
The two main categories used to describe a place are physical features and ____________ features.
What are human (or cultural) features?
When people change the land to build a road, bridge, or dam, they are doing this to the environment.
What is modifying the environment
Which theme of geography explores how people, goods, and ideas travel from one place to another?
What is Movement?
this massive air region covers the most of northern Africa and is the largest desert in the world
What is the Sahara desert?
These imaginary lines circle the Earth horizontally and vertically, meeting at specific coordinates to help geographers pin down any location.
What are latitude and longitude?
Characteristics like rain forests and deserts are examples of _______ characteristics
The 3 key components or actions that define how humans interact with the world around them are depend, adapt, and ________.
What is modify
Shipping coffee beans from Brazil to a cafe in New York City is an example of
What are goods (or products / trade)?
This highly active Volcanic region loops around the edges of the Pacific Ocean and his homes about 75% of the world’s most active volcanoes
What is the Ring of fire?
What is the main line of latitude that measures 0 degrees?
What is the Equator?
While deserts sand and dry air represents its physical characteristics, a region's language, architecture, religion represents which the category of place.
What is Human/Cultural characteristics
Clearing a forest or a farm or wearing a heavy coat in the winter are examples of_________.
What is human-environment interaction
Cargo ships carrying electronics manufactured in Asia across the Pacific Ocean to be sold in North American stores are an example of
What are goods?
This wind swept region covers the Northern most parts of Russia, Canada, and Scandinavia
What is the tundra?