MOVEMENT
The way people travel from place to place.
What is movement?
An area of land that has common features.
What is region?
Interactions between the human social system and the ecosystem.
What is human environmental interaction?
The physical place a statistical unit is located and for which statistics are collected and disseminated.
What is location?
A location that has a significant meaning to a person.
What is place?
Movement from one country, place or locality to another in search of better opportunities to settle.
What is migration?
The region the USA is in.
What is North America?
Adaptation, developmental adjustment, acclimatization, and cultural responses.
What are humans responding to their environment?
The two types of location.
What is relative location?
What is absolute location?
The two kinds of characteristics a geographer uses to describe a place.
What is physical and human characteristics?
The process of moving to a new country or region with the intention of staying and living there.
What is immigration?
The two ways a region can be defined.
What is natural or artificial features?
The five common forms of social interaction.
What are exchange, competition, conflict, cooperation, and accommodation?
Describes a precise point on earth.
What is absolute location?
They include land forms, bodies of water, climate, soils, natural vegetation, and animal life.
What is physical characteristics?
The act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.
What is emigration?
A feature that is created through the action of physical, geological, biological, and chemical processes over time.
What are natural features?
Overpopulation, pollution, and the burning of fossil fuels.
What is humans effecting their environment?
Describes where something else by using another, familiar feature as a reference point.
What is relative location?
Include land use, density of population, language patterns, religion, architecture, and political systems.
What is human characteristics?
Example of movement.
What is United States' westward expansion?
Features of the land created by Humans.
What are artificial features?
People who live in different environments, their activities and the environmental features which they have created.
What is the main ideas of human environment?
A place, spot or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there.
What is locality?
When a person moves to an unfamiliar city for a new job.
What is sense of place?