Unit 1 Vocab pt 1
The exact, fixed position of a point on the Earth's surface. Expressed using standard global coordinates like latitude and longitude and/or defined by specific postal or street addresses
What is absolute location?
This theme of geography tells you where something is.
What is Location?
any information, object, or statement used to prove or disprove a fact
What is evidence?
The position of a place described in connection to other surrounding landmarks, features, or places. Uses directional terms, travel time, or spatial distance.Down the street from the park.
What is relative location?
This theme of geography tells you what it is like when you get there.
What is place?
An original, first-hand account of an event or topic, created by someone who was directly involved or witnessed it
What is primary source?
An area on Earth defined by one or more shared physical or human traits that set it apart from other areas.
What is a region?
This theme of geography tells you how people and ideas get around.
What is movement?
A work that interprets, analyzes, or summarizes information from primary sources rather than providing direct, firsthand evidence
What is a secondary source?
The study of how the challenges posed by the environment drive the history of human cultural development and how human activity affects the environment in turn.
What is human-environment interaction?
This theme of geography tells you what people do to the environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
Natural features and processes on Earth, primarily consisting of landforms, bodies of water, and climate. They form the natural environment without human creation
What are physical characteristics?
This focuses entirely on the unique physical and human characteristics that make a specific location on Earth different from anywhere else.
What is place?
This theme tells you what locations have in common.
What is region?
They show how humans live, work, and interact with their environment and include things like buildings, roads, and language patterns.
What are human characteristics?