Location, Location, Location
What is the exact position of a place on Earth called?
What is Absolute Location?
What system of intersecting lines helps us locate places on a map?
What is a Grid?
What is the study of Earth, its people, places, and environments?
What is Geography?
What word describes the usual weather conditions of a place over a long period of time?
What is climate?
What do we call something found in nature that people can use?
What is a natural resource?
What two measurements are used to identify absolute location?
What is latitude and longitude?
What are the horizontal lines that circle Earth from east to west?
What are Parallels of latitude?
What term describes how people are spread across an area?
What is Population distribution?
Farming, manufacturing, mining, and tourism are examples of what?
What is Economic activity?
What word means to change something to better meet people's needs?
What is modify?
What are the numbers used to identify a specific location using latitude and longitude called?
What are coordinates?
What are the imaginary lines running from the North Pole to the South Pole?
What are Meridians of longitude?
A city has many people living close together, while a rural area has fewer people spread farther apart. What geographic concept does this demonstrate?
What is Population distribution?
Forests, rivers, minerals, and fertile soil are all examples of what?
What is natural resources?
The buying, selling, or exchanging of goods and services is called what?
What is trade?
Savannah is located at approximately 32° N, 81° W. What type of location is being given?
What is Absolute location?
Which coordinate comes first when writing geographic coordinates: latitude or longitude?
What is latitude?
Building dams, roads, cities, and farms are examples of humans doing what to their environment?
What is Modifying the environment?
A region's climate and natural resources can influence the types of jobs found there. What term describes these jobs and businesses?
What is economic activity?
What term refers specifically to the north-south position of a location on Earth?
What is latitude?
Atlanta is approximately 34° N, 84° W. Which number represents its longitude?
What is 84° W?
Why do geographers use latitude and longitude together?
To identify the precise or absolute location of a place on Earth?
Why might population distribution be greater near rivers, coastlines, or major cities?
What is access to resources, transportation, jobs, water, and/or trade?
How can climate affect economic activity?
What is climate can influence agriculture, tourism, resources, jobs, and other economic activities?
What term refers specifically to the east-west position of a location on Earth?
What is Longitude?