Region
The study of the Earth’s landscapes, environments, and the relationships between people and their environments.
What is geography?
Details about the people in a place.
What are human characteristics?
Refers to the specific position of a place on Earth.
What is location?
Explores how humans adapt to, modify, and depend on their environment.
What is human environment interaction?
_______ move through migration, travel, and transportation methods like cars, planes, and trains.
What is people?
How many regions is the United States divided into?
What is five?
Refers to the physical and human characteristics that define a location.
What is place?
The exact position of a place using coordinates with latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
People have to interact with their environment for _______.
What is survival?
Refers to the flow of people, goods, and ideas across the planet.
What is movement?
What are the three categories of regions?
What are formal, functional, and perceptual?
Climate, bodies of water, and landforms are examples of ____________ characteristics of a place.
What is physical?
The ______ location is in Washington, D.C., east of the National Mall and across the pond from the Washington Monument.
What is relative?
People who live near a water source may ______ ____ their environment for hydration, cleanliness, and power.
What is depend on?
_____ move through trade and shipping of products around the world, like exports and imports.
What are goods?
This type of region is defined by specific boundaries.
What is formal?
Details about the natural landscape and environment
What are physical characteristics?
The position of a place in relation to other places or landmarks.
What is relative location?
Humans living in certain climates ______ ____ their environment by wearing appropriate clothing to protect themselves.
What is adapt to?
______ move through the spread of culture, technology, news, and trends through the internet, books, and social media
What are ideas?
This type of region is based on someone's opinion.
What is perceptual?
Language, culture, and architecture are examples of ________ characteristics of a place.
What is human?
The ________ location of the U.S. Capitol building is 38.8899°N, 77.0091°W.
What is absolute?
Humans may ______ their environment by cutting down trees to build shelter or use the wood for other needs.
What is modify?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Name an example of each type of movement.
People -
Goods -
Ideas -