Location
The exact location.
What is absolute location?
A form of communication, written or spoken.
What is language?
A __________ region is united by characteristics like mountain ranges, proximity to bodies of water, climates, etc.
What is physical region?
When people move from their homeland to a new place but retain their cultural identity. This movement is often not by choice.
What is diaspora?
Mining releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. A result of increased greenhouse gases is ___________________.
What is climate change?
What is relative location?
Places can be defined by ______________ or __________ characteristics.
Physical or cultural.
The Middle East is both a physical and ___________ region.
What is cultural?
This type of economic system is governed by customs and traditions.
What is traditional?
This practice allowed human beings to stay in one place and develop settlements.
What is farming?
North America is located in these two hemispheres.
What is northern and western?
Places can change over _________. What was true about Washington, D.C. for your grandparents may not be true now.
What is time?
This enormous physical feature unites Northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This theory states that all human life began in Africa. Human beings then migrated all over the world and their features changed to accommodate different climates.
What is the Out of Africa theory?
This term refers to technology or new processes/ways of doing things.
What is innovation?
A line of latitude at 0 degrees; runs through South America.
What is the equator?
This vocabulary word refers to where a person was born.
What is nationality?
What is oil?
What is colonialism or colonization?
We see higher populations next to this physical feature.
What is water or bodies of water?
When giving the absolute location, this coordinate comes first.
What is latitude?
When people move, they often bring their __________ with them and practice them in a new place. Therefore, the culture of a place will change over time.
What is traditions?
A cultural feature that unites the Middle East.
Possible answers: religion, Jerusalem's importance, religious sites, holy land.
Refers to the total sum of all goods and services produced in the country over a specific period of time.
*You must give the full name, not just the acronym.
What is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
What is seafood and/or rice?