Geography Terms
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three (3) sides
What is a peninsula?
42.287° N
71.526° W
What is Location?
Goal is to promote PEACE
Mild temperatures
“Vacation Land”
Summers are hot, winters are cool but not cold
What is Temperate?
I am a -------- when I have money in my pocket that I want to spend to buy
What is a consumer?
A smaller river or stream that feeds into a larger river
What is a tributary?
We throw away trash in the trash bin and try not to let anything go to waste or get thrown on the streets
If you happen to walk downtown you will see it is, for the most part pretty clean and you rarely see trash on the sidewalk or streets
In Hopkinton, we always try to recycle and the recycling truck comes and picks up all of it once every two weeks
What is Human Environmental Interaction?
They help with DISASTERS and times of WAR
What is the Red Cross/Red Crescent?
Very little precipitation ( rain, snow etc.)
Many deserts ( some cold at night)
Little plantlife and water supply
What is Arid/Dry?
The ------- for Nike sneakers have to make sure that they sell a high-quality product at a reasonable price.
What is a producer?
A broad area of land that is gently rolling or almost flat
What is plain?
People
Goods
Ideas
What is Movement?
Have a military alliance between the US, Canada, and many European countries
What is NATO?
Found close to the equator
Very hot every month ( usually above 64 degrees F
Gets more sun exposure than anywhere else on the world
What is Tropical?
Unlike a communist country in which the government controls what is produced and consumed, the United States depends on the ------- in which individuals decide how much of a product is manufactured and consumers decide what they want to buy.
What is the free market?
A method of farming in a mountainous area in which one digs flat surfaces into the mountain in which to grow crops
What is terrace farming?
Hopkinton is located in Massachusetts, in the USA (Northern region) Hopkinton is in the Middlesex Country
What is region?
Who createa a healthier world by VACCINATing and researching diseases.
Who is WHO (World Health Organization)?
Wider temperature range that gets all four seasons
Hot summers and cold winters
Only found NORTH of the equator
Found primarily in North America and Europe
What is Continental?
There is a high ------ for UGG boots once the winter months hit in the northeast region of the country since we have cold weather and a lot of snow.
What is demand?
A deep, narrow inlet of the sea between high, steep cliffs
What is a fjord?
Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement and Region
What are the Five Themes of Geography?
Stop world poverty by giving grants and loans
Who is the World Bank?
Found in the most northern and southern regions of the globe. Polar regions can also be in the mountains with high elevations
The weather is very cold, year-round
What is Polar?
The company Apple must make sure that they have a high ------ of new iphones within a month of launching its new phones since there will be a big demand for them.
What is supply?