Location
What are the two types of location; one uses coordinates and the other describes where a place is compared to other places?
Absolute and Relative Location
What two main features
describe a place
(one physical, one human)?
Physical: Landforms, waterbodies, etc.
Humans: Buildings, Language, Religion.
What is a region?
Region refers to areas of the Earth’s surface that have several common characteristics.
What does the Movement theme study? Give one simple example (people, goods, or ideas).
Spread of Religion, International Business, Trade Routes or Migration Paths
What question does the Human-Environment Interaction theme ask about people and their surroundings?
How people affect their environment, or natural surroundings, and how their environment affects them.
Provide the coordinates (latitude and longitude) format for a place: which value comes first, latitude or longitude?
Longitude
Name two physical characteristics you could list when describing a place.
Landforms and Bodies of Water.
Give one example of a formal region and one example of a functional region.
Formal: A desert, forest or other nature-based locations
Functional: A city, a metropolitan area or any region defined by human behaviors.
Name one historical example of the movement of ideas that changed societies.
Examples: Enlightenment, the Columbian exchange, the silk road.
Give one example of how humans modify the environment for farming.
Fertilizer, terracing, tilling, canal building or deforesting.
If you give an address or exact GPS point, which type of location have you given?
Absolute Location
Name two human characteristics you might use to describe a place.
Buildings, language or religion.
The Midwest is an example of which type of region: formal, functional or perceptual? Explain why.
Formal region
Explain how the movement of goods between countries affects where people live and work.
People go where jobs and goods are abundant.
Explain one positive and one negative effect of building a dam on a river.
Positive: Renewable Electricity
Negative: Risk of floods or droughts
Name one example of a relative-location clue a person might use to tell where the school is located.
Name of any building or place nearby (I will judge your answer personally)
Read this short description and identify whether it emphasizes physical or human characteristics:
“Tall skyscrapers, busy subway lines, and many different restaurants.”
Human Characteristics
What makes a perceptual (vernacular) region different from a formal region? Give a short example.
Formal: Defined by Measurable Traits
Perceptual: Region based on beliefs or a culture
A small town is built along a river that was used to ship crops to markets. Which theme of geography does this example show, and why?
Movement
Describe an example of adaptation to a cold climate and an example of mitigation used to reduce harm from a natural hazard.
Cold adaptation: House insulation and thicker clothing
Natural disaster mitigation: Seawalls, drainage areas or underground tornado shelters.
A city is at 34° N, 118° W. Is this description an example of absolute location or relative location?
Absolute Location
Choose a real place (your town or a well-known city). List one physical and one human characteristic that make it unique.
I will judge this based on your answer
Describe how climate, language, and economic activities together can define a cultural region. Use a clear classroom-level example.
I will judge your answers.
Describe how migration, trade, and technology work together to spread cultural practices between continents.
All these things allow humans from different cultures to interact with each other.
A coastal city plans to protect itself from sea-level rise.
Propose two different human-environment interaction strategies the city could use (one structural/engineering solution and one policy or behavior change), and give a brief benefit of each.
Seawalls or retreat locations for example.