Location
What is location?
The spot where something is on earth
What is place?
Place answers the question "what is it like there?"
Can there be regions inside of regions?
Yes
What is movement?
The way people, goods and ideas are moved around
What is human-environment interactions?
How humans interact with the environment
What are the two types of location?
Absolute and relative
Name three physical characteristics
Landforms, climate/weather, animals, vegetation, bodies of water
Why do we have regions?
To study how places are similar and different
What are the three types of movement?
Is cutting down trees to build houses an example of adapting, depending or modifying the environment?
Modifying
If I said my house is up the street from Shsh am I using relative or absolute location?
Relative location
Name three human characteristics
Language, religion, culture, food, population, buildings, clothing
How can regions be categorized?
Human and physical characteristics, weather/climate and location
What are three ways that ideas can travel?
Tv, social media, talking, books and magazines
What are the three ways we interact with the environment?
Adapt, depend and modify
What is the acronym for the five themes of geography?
MRHELP
What are three physical characteristics of Nova Scotia?
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What are the three types of region?
Rural, Urban and Wilderness
Popular music usually starts in one place and then spreads around the world through sources like the internet or radio stations. This is an example of what type of movement?
Ideas
What question does human environment interactions ask?
What is the relationship between humans and the environment
What continent is Monaco in?
Europe
What are three human characteristics of Nova Scotia?
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What is a functional characteristic?
The way the land is used
Is the following statement an example of a push factor or a pull factor? The War in Syria has made our family decide to leave and move to Europe.
Push factor
In Canada we heat our homes in the winter. Is that an example of adapting, depending or modifying the environment?
Adapting