Movement
Movement occurs when people walk from one place to another. True or False?
True
These areas are grouped together because they share common characteristics.
What are regions
This type of location gives an exact point using latitude and longitude or an address.
What is absolute location?
These characteristics include mountains, rivers, climate, and vegetation.
What are physical characteristics?
Social media spreading a viral trend across countries is an example of the movement of what?
Ideas
Give an example of a vernacular region.
Northwest, Midwest, the South, the Middle East.
Pollution from an industrial plant is an example of humans __________ the environment.
What is affecting or changing the environment
These characteristics include language, culture, architecture, and population.
What are human characteristics?
A family leaves Mexico to work in the United States. What type of movement does this represent?
Movement of people/ migration
"The Tigris River runs east of the Euphrates River” is an example of this type of location.
What is relative location?
How do we modify the environment to satisfy our needs?
We build dams to control water. We build highways through mountains to travel.
These are three examples of physical characteristics found in a place.
What are flat lands, mountains, rivers, trees, plants, oceans, valleys, etc.
Why did deserts, mountains, and oceans slow down movement in the past, but they don't as much today?
Because in the past, physical barriers limited travel, but technology (ships, planes, highways) allows faster movement now. We adapted to our environments.
Vernacular regions are based on people’s __________ and do not have clearly defined borders.
Perceptions
The coordinates 43°N, 73°W describe this town in upstate New York.
What is Corinth?
If I described the people in New York to be educated, it is a __________________ characteristic.
Human
Compare the movement of goods on the Silk Road with the movement of goods in today’s world. What has changed, and what has stayed the same?
Changed = speed, technology, global scale (ships, planes, internet orders).
Same = goods and ideas still connect different regions, geography still shapes routes, trade still links cultures.
Why might “the Middle East” be considered a vernacular region, while Europe is considered a formal region?
The Middle East is based on perceptions and lacks agreed-upon borders, whereas Europe has government-defined borders.
Explain how you would describe Corinth High School’s location using both absolute and relative terms.
Street address / Latitude & Longitude (Absolute) and North of Saratoga Springs / South of Lake George / East of the Sacandaga Lake or Northville / West of Gansevoort or Argyle (Relative)
Explain how the Great Pacific Garbage Patch shows both humans affecting the environment and the environment affecting humans.
Humans created it through pollution, and it affects humans by damaging ecosystems and the fishing industries.
A geographer studying Dubai might note its desert climate, modern skyscrapers, and large immigrant population. Which characteristics are physical and which are human, and why does this matter?
Physical = desert climate; Human = skyscrapers and immigrant population. It matters because place combines both.