Movement
This explains how people, goods, and ideas move from place to place and change culture and the environment.
What is movement?
This is the name of the continent on which we live.
What is North America?
Lansing, Michigan is located at 42° N, 84° W.
What is Absolute location?
This is how people use, change, and work with a place.
What is human-environment interaction?
Geographers study both the physical and human characteristics of this.
What is place?
This is the movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions.
What is migration?
This is a desert region in the United States.
What is Arizona?
This system uses satellites to provide exact coordinates on Earth.
What is GPS?
This is one way humans harm the environment.
What is anything that causes pollution?
These characteristics of a place include the climate, landforms, bodies of water, plants, and animals at the site.
What are physical characteristics?
Factors that attract people to move to a place.
A group of places that have physical features or human characteristics, or both, in common is called this.
The equator divides the Earth into these two hemispheres.
What are the north and south hemispheres?
These are created over millions of years from the remains of prehistoric living things.
What are fossil fuels?
These characteristics of a place include the population, language, architecture, religion, government, and culture at the site.
What are human characteristics?
True or False. The expansion of cell phone reception around the planet is an example of movement.
What is true?
True or False: States are political regions.
What is true?
Name the imaginary line that runs at 0° longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
These are natural hazards that negatively affect our lives.
What are hurricanes, tornados, floods, tsunami, wildfires, etc.
This part of a map shows symbols and their meanings.
What is the key?
This is a good tool for the movement of ideas.
What is the internet?
Name one of the world's 10 natural regions.
What are tundra, tropical, temperate, mountain, rain forest, grassland, desert, arctic, mediterranean, forest?
Name all five themes of geography.
What are Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, and Place?
These are useful materials found in the environment.
What are natural resources?
This part of a map helps determine directions like north, south, east, and west.
What is the compass rose?