Location
Having coordinates tells someone where a place is
What is Exact Location?
A _____ is an area that is defined by everything by it.
What is place?
A factor that brings, or attracts, people to a new area
People had to _________ by building their homes above the floodplain of the Nile River, so their houses wouldn't flood.
What is to adapt?
The Midwest is full of fields for growing crops. This makes it the Midwest an agricultural ___________.
What is a region?
Describing the location... next to the library, south of Omaha, near the flagpole, etc.
What is Relative Location?
The description of this classroom is...
What is a room with walls, a rug, desks, and a markerboard?
A factor that motivates people to leave an area
What is a push factor?
____________ is the clearing of land for agriculture or urban development.
What is deforestation?
States like Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, and Mississippi are in the _________ region of the United States.
What is the Southeast?
I live at 123 N. Elm Street. I am telling you my __________ location.
What is exact/absolute location?
The description of a high school gym is...
What is a big room with bleachers, basketball hoops, and a court?
When people have to move for a new job (push/pull factor)
What is a Push Factor?
Humans had to create _____ in order to travel by car to the locations they needed to get to.
What are roads?
A region is an area of land that shares _______ characteristics in the make-up of land or culture.
What is similar?
What is Relative Location?
This place has a school, post office, bank, grocery store, gas station, and baseball fields.
What is a town?
The internet, newspapers, and magazines are an example of the movement of __________.
What are ideas?
_________ resources are solar energy, wind, and plants.
What are Renewable Resources?
Examples of regions would be North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, & Asia, which are...
What are continents?
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is the exact location of what famous building in the United States?
What is the White House?
A _______ is an object or feature of a place that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location.
What is a landmark?
Cars, trucks, ships, and planes are an example of _______________.
What is Transportation? or What is the movement of people/goods?
____________ resources are fossil fuels (oil, coal, etc.)
What are Nonrenewable Resources?
The Ring of Fire is a region in the Pacific, and it is known for what...
What are volcanoes?