Physical Features
This natural feature often attracted people to settle nearby because it provided water, transportation, and fertile soil.
What is a river?
This theme of geography studies how humans adapt to, modify, and depend on their environment.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This theme tells us where a place is, using either coordinates or its location in relation to other places.
What is Location?
This theme describes the physical and human features that make a place unique, like mountains, rivers, buildings, and culture.
What is Place?
This theme of geography studies how people, goods, and ideas travel from one place to another.
What is Movement?
These tall landforms often acted as barriers, slowing migration and separating groups of people
What are mountains
Planting crops, building dams, and creating irrigation systems are examples of how humans change or modify the environment to meet their needs.
What is modifying the environment?
This type of location uses latitude and longitude to find an exact spot on Earth.
What is absolute location?
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is an example of this type of feature that helps define a place.
What is a human characteristic?
When people move from one country to another for jobs, safety, or better opportunities, this type of movement occurs.
What are pull factors?
A large area of flat or gently rolling land, often used for farming and settlements, is called a __________.
What are plains/grassland?
Wearing warm clothing in cold climates or using air conditioning in hot climates are examples of humans __________ to their environment.
What is adapting to the environment?
This type of location describes a place in relation to other places, like “north of the river” or “near the mountains.”
What is relative location?
The Amazon Rainforest is an example of this type of feature that makes a place unique.
What is a physical characteristic?
During history, people moved to new lands because of factors like war, famine, or environmental changes. These factors are called __________.
What are push factors?
Dense areas of trees and vegetation that provide resources like wood, food, and shelter are called __________.
What are forests?
Humans rely on the environment for things like water, food, and energy. This shows one way people interact with the environment called __________.
What is depending on the environment?
When someone says, “My school is next to the park,” they are giving this kind of location.
What is relative location?
A place’s climate, landforms, and natural resources influence how people live there. These are examples of __________ characteristics.
What are physical characteristics?
Humans first migrated out of this continent, spreading across the world over thousands of years, eventually reaching every other continent.
What is Africa?
This type of land often encouraged migration and settlement because it was easy to farm and travel across
What are plains?
Farmers build terraces on hillsides to prevent soil erosion and grow crops. This is an example of humans __________ to the environment.
What is modifying the environment?
This grid system uses latitude (parallels) and longitude (meridians) to give every point on Earth a unique address.
What is the coordinate system?
Places can be compared based on these characteristics to see how they are similar or different, such as size, population, or landscape.
What are physical and human characteristics?
Civilizations often developed in areas where people could move goods and people easily, like flat land or along rivers. These areas are known as
What are transportation/trade routes