Back to the Basics
Location Sensation
Places O' Places
Region
Movement
Human Environmental Interaciton
100
the study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate
What is geography?
100
primary directions of north, south, east, and west
What are the cardinal directions?
100
lanforms, water forms, ecosystems, and climate
What are Physical Characteristics?
100
viewpoint that is influenced by one's own culture and experience
What is perception?
100
emigration and immigration
What are the movement of people?
200
another name for lines of latitude
What are parallels?
200
locating points on a map, using lines of latitude and longitude
What is absolute location?
200
population, economy, government, customs, languages
What are human characteristics?
200
area where certain characteristics are found throughout the region
What is a formal region?
200
exports and imports
What are the movement of goods?
300
location, character, movement, region, human/environmental interaction
What are the five themes of geography?
300
instrument used to measure direction
What is a compass rose?
300
Mt. McKinley or Mt. Everest
What are examples of physical characteristics?
300
defined by peoples feelings and attitudes towards that region
What is a perceptual region?
300
how people use and change their environment, and what are the consequences of those changes
What is human environmental interaction?
400
GPS, SONAR, Satellites, GIS
What are examples of Geographic Technology?
400
0 degrees longitude, used to divide the Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
the population of the City of Pittsburgh
What is an example of a human characteristic?
400
Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area
What is a functional region?
400
planting trees throughout a newly constructed park
What is an example of postive H/E interaction?
500
23 1/2 degrees south, receives the most direct sunlight half of the year, due to the tilt of the Earth on it's axis
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
500
measure from 0 degrees to 180 degrees East, and 0 degrees and 180 degrees west
What are lines on longitude?
500
rivers, lakes, oceans, harbors, bays, gulfs
What are waterforms?
500
the Cornbelt
What is formal, functional, and perceptional region
500
destruction of an ecosystem by loggers
What is an example of negative H/E interaction?
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