LOCATION
The meaning of "Location” in geography
What is position?
The physical and human characteristics of a location
What is place?
Ways to organize the world into locations that share common characteristics
What is region?
Describes the physical and human features of a place
Movement
What describes how people adapt to, modify, or depend on their environment?
Human-Environment Interaction
The two types of location
What is absolute and relative?
Skyscrapers, roads, and languages are examples of these kinds of features.
What are Human Characteristics?
The American South is often considered this type of region.
What is a Formal Region?
The internet is an example of this type of movement.
What is Movement of Ideas?
Building a dam to store water is an example of this.
What is Modifying the Environment?
The definition of absolute location
What is exact coordinates?
Mountains, rivers, and climate describe these features of a place.
What are Physical Characteristics?
A city and its suburbs form this type of region.
What is a Functional Region?
Trains, ships, and planes help with this type of movement.
What is Movement of Goods or People?
Wearing warm clothes in winter is an example of this.
What is Adapting to the Environment?
The definition of relative location
What is nearby/ close places?
A place where people share common traditions, language, and architecture.
What is a Cultural Place?
A region defined by people’s feelings and images (like “the Midwest”).
What is a Perceptual Region?
People leaving a country due to war is an example of this.
What is Migration?
A hurricane causing people to evacuate is an example of this.
What is the Environment Affecting Humans?
Where the longtitude and latitude meet
What is coordinates?
A rainforest with high rainfall, dense vegetation, and tribal villages is an example of this type of Place.
What is a physical and human combination?
A desert climate region shares this characteristic.
What is Arid or Dry Climate?
Trade routes like the Silk Road helped this form of movement.
What is Economic or Cultural Movement?
People settling near rivers for fresh water and farming are doing this with their environment.
What is depending on the environment?