Location
What is Location?
An actual place or natural setting
What is place?
Describing a specific location with feature like landforms, culture, language, and climate.
What is Movement?
The flow of people, goods, and ideas across the Earth
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
The study of how humans interact with and adapt to the environment
What is Region?
The study of areas with shared characteristics.
What are maps used for?
To find a state and/ or country
Give an example of a place known for its climate.
Hot, Cold, Dry, Wet, Storms
Give some examples of goods people move from place to place
Food, Money, Clothes, Medicine, Materials
How to people adapt to their environment?
modifying the environment to best suit human needs, (clothing, housing, technologies based on their needs.
True or False: Can politics be involved in a region?
True
What do you use to find the the exact coordinates?
Longitude and Latitude
True or False: Can different cultures be at a place? If so, explain.
TRUE! There are different cultures in every place. For example, P.S. 209 (Russian, Uzbek, Urdu, Georgian, Tajik, Ukraine, ETC...)
What are some ways goods can be moved from place to place?
Bus, Train, Plane, Ships, Car, ETC...
How can environment affect human activities?
Pollution, Climate Change, Hurricanes, etc...
Give an example of a region.
regions could be natural such as an ocean or a forest, or they could be man-made such as a country or state.
What is Relative Location?
A Location that is around the Absolute Location
What are physical features of a place?
Mountains, rivers, climate, vegetation
How does tradition move from one place to another?
Families spreading their traditions, language, and cultures moving from generation to generation.
Give an example of a positive interaction between humans and the environment.
Recycling, cleaning oceans, parks, and our neighborhoods, etc....
What is a cultural region?
a geographic area where cultures share common traits, such as language, food, music, or religion.
What is Absolute Location?
The EXACT location on a map
What are human characteristics of a place?
Language spoken, architecture, traditions, economic activities.
What is the importance of movement?
Expanding a country to become bigger and stronger with transporting goods.
How would you interact with our environment? Explain.
Great Job!
What are the 7 continents?
Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe.