Misc. Geography
The study of the earth and its features.
The position of anything on Earth's surface.
Includes absolute and relative types.
What is Location?
The ways in which people, goods, products, and information travel from one place to another.
What is Movement?
How people use and change their surroundings and how the environment affects where people live?
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
The term for the way of life shared by a group of people. A way of life passed down from ancestors.
What is culture?
Place, Region, Human Environment Interaction, Location, and Movement.
What are the 5 themes of Geography?
The imaginary lines around the Earth parallel to the equator; tells distance north and south of equator
What is latitude?
Airplanes, Trains, Cars, Bicycles.
What are modes (types) of transportation?
Cutting down trees for shelter; clearing land to build cities or roads.
What are examples of humans Modifying their environment?.
Language, Religion, Food, Clothing, Music, and Traditions
An area that has common characteristics or features.
What is Region?
The exact location; use of an address or longitude and latitude.
What is absolute location?
The internet and social media.
What are ways that ideas spread quickly today?
People moving to cities for better job opportunities.
What is migration?
The description or image of a place that illustrates its unique culture and geography.
What is avCultural Landscape?
Immigrants traveling from Asia to the United States.
What is an example of Movement?
The position of a place in relation to another place
ex:Naknek is SW of Anchorage.
What is relative location?
People that leave their home country due to war or danger.
What are refugees?
Wearing winter clothes in cold weather and/or wearing summer clothes in hot weather.
What is Adapting to the environment?
A sense of confusion when facing a culture's unfamiliar way of life.
What is Culture Shock?
What are latitude and longitude?
The natural features of Earth, such as mountains, lakes, and deserts, climate, plants, animals.
What are the physical characteristics of Place?
The buying and selling of goods between countries.
What is trade?
Three ways people depend on the environment are ...
What is water, food, and shelter?
A Culture practiced by small, traditional communities.
What is Folk Culture?