What are the 3 main ways of human-environment interaction?
We depend on it
We modify it
We adapt to it
100
What are the 3 types of regions?
Formal, Functional, Vernacular
100
What is movement?
How ideas, information, and people get from one place to another
200
What are physical characteristics?
landforms, climate, vegitation, wildlife
200
What are intermediate directions?
northeast, southeast, northwest southwest
200
What is the word used for dirty air and water
Pollution
200
What are Formal Regions?
Regions defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (States, Countries, Cities)
Regions defined by similar characteristics (Corn Belt, Rocky Mountain region, Chinatown).
200
How do people move around the world?
Cars, trains, planrs, boats
300
What are Human Characteristics?
Language, Custums, Beliefs, Poplulation
300
What is relative location?
Where a place is in relation to another place
300
What are ways we depend on the environment?
Food, Water, Shelter
300
What are Functional Regions?
Regions defined by a function (newspaper service area, cell phone coverage area, school district).
300
How does information move around the world?
Email, letters, phones, computers
400
What is the population of Missoula County?
109,494
400
What is absolute location
Latitude and Longitude, Street address
400
How people adapt their environment?
Wearing specific clothing epending on the weather
400
What are Vernacular Regions?
Regions defined by peoples perception (middle east, the south, etc.)
400
How do ideas move around the world?
News papers, Magazines, TV, Radio
500
What is the capitol of California?
Sacramento
500
We are located 1 mile west of Walmart, is an example of what?
Relative Location
500
How do we modify our environment?
Heating and cooling a building for comfort, cutting down trees to build