Location
What two imaginary lines are used to identify the absolute location of a place using coordinates?
Lines of latitude and longitude.
What is a physical characteristic of a place?
A natural feature, such as a mountain, river, or forest.
What are the seven continents of the world?
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica?
People wear thick coats and boots during the winter to stay warm in cold climates. Are they adapting to or modifying their environment?
What is adapting?
Something that makes people want or need to leave a place.
What is a push factor?
What is the difference between absolute location and relative location?
Absolute location gives an exact position, while relative location describes where a place is compared to another place.
What is a human characteristic of a place?
A feature created by humans or related to human culture, such as buildings, roads, or language.
What are the five oceans of the world?
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans?
Farmers build irrigation systems to bring water to crops in dry areas. Are they adapting to or modifying their environment?
What is modifying?
Something that attracts people to a new place.
What is a pull factor?
What is the absolute location of a place located at 30°N latitude and 60°W longitude?
30°N, 60°W.
A town celebrates a yearly cultural festival and speaks Spanish as its main language.
What are human characteristics?
The Sahara Desert is a region with a hot, dry climate and very little rainfall. What type of region is it.
What is a formal region?
People living in areas that experience frequent flooding build houses on stilts to keep their homes above the water. Is this an example of adapting to or modifying the environment?
What is adapting?
A family leaves their country because there is a war and it is no longer safe to live there.
What is a push factor?
New York City is located southwest of Boston. Is this an example of absolute location or relative location?
Relative location.
A community has a warm climate, sandy beaches, many hotels, and restaurants. Identify two physical characteristics and two human characteristics.
Physical: warm climate and sandy beaches. Human: hotels and restaurants.
The New York City metropolitan area includes New York City and nearby communities connected by commuting, transportation, and business. What type of region is this,?
What is a functional region?
People living in the Andes Mountains build terraces into steep hillsides to create flat areas for farming.
What is adapting?
A person moves to a new city because it offers better jobs, good schools, and more opportunities.
What is a pull factor?
A geographer wants to study population density and where most people live in a country. What type of map would be most useful?
thematic map
A city is located near a river and surrounded by mountains. It has bridges, factories, and neighborhoods.
Identify two human characteristics.
People often refer to the American Midwest as “the Heartland,” even though there are no exact boundaries defining this area. What type of region is this?
What is a perceptual region?
A community cuts down trees to clear land for new homes, roads, and businesses.
What is modifying?
A family leaves their hometown because of a severe drought that destroys their crops. They move to another country where they can find jobs and access clean water. Identify one push factor and two pull factors.
Push factor: drought destroying crops. Pull factors: job opportunities and access to clean water.