Location
What are the two types of location?
1. Absolute location
2. Relative location
What are the three different ways you can interact with the environment?
Adapt, modify, and depend
What are two ways you can describe a place?
Physical features - Landforms of the place, mountains, climate, rivers, oceans, deserts
Human features - Buildings, landmarks, people, culture, language, food
Name three ways to define a region.
Unifying - similarities
Land - physical characteristics of a region
Culture - share similar values or customs (food, religion, clothing, accents, language)
What are three types of movement?
Ideas, people and goods going from one place to another.
What is absolute location?
The exact address or latitude on longitude coordinates.
Name two ways humans depend on their environment?
Water, oxygen, good, natural materials for building
Give two examples of physical features of a place
Mountains, rivers, oceans, deserts, climate
Name two physical features of the land in a region
deserts, mountains, grasslands, watershed, rainforest, arid climate, etc.
Name 2 examples of the movement of goods.
How products are moved from place to place. They typically get moved by planes, trains, trucks, and cars.
What is relative location
Defined by what a place is surrounded by using directions, distance, and landmarks.
How do humans have a positive impact on the environment?
Planting trees, recycling, building the wildlife overpass
Give two examples of human features of a place
Buildings, culture, language, and food
What NFL football team does our region cheer for?
The Seahawks.
Name two examples of movement of ideas
Ideas move around the world by TV, radio, internet, social media, newspapers, etc.
What is zero degrees longitude?
Prime Meridian
How do humans have a negative impact on the environment?
Polluting, landfills, laying down cement and removing natural resources
What are examples of the bodies of water
Oceans, rivers, lakes, bays,
Name 5 different types of geographical regions in the USA?
Northwest, Southwest, Midwest, Southeast, Northeast
Name one reason why people move when thinking about the 5 themes of geography?
Place - weather
Movement - commute time
HEI - how hard it is to adapt to the environment
Region - cultural aspects
Location - Proximity to areas of interest (family, weather, job)
What is the latitude that runs through the center of the Earth?
Equator
Give an example for each, of how we in our community adapts, modifies, and depends on the environment.
Adapt - carry an umbrella, wear a coat
Modify - build highways, dams, ferry system
Depend - Waterways for salmon, rain water, land for growing food and grazing animals
Why do geographers study this theme by looking at the characteristics that...
to tell each location apart
What geographical region do we live in?
Northwest
The study of the Earth and how people use it (answer with a question)
What is Geography?