Vocabulary
The study of the earth and it’s people.
What is Geography?
True or False: Geography is the study of the Earth and its features?
False. Geography is the study of the Earth and its people.
The number of deaths per year for every 1,000 people.
What is the death rate?
The acronym used by the teacher in the 5 Themes of Geography Fortnite examples video, to remember each theme.
What is MR.HELP?
Someone who studies physical features such as land areas, bodies of water, plant life, etc.
The position on the Earth’s surface.
What is Location?
True or False: Human – movement interaction is one of the five themes of geography.
False. Human – environment interaction is one of the five themes.
The number of children born each year for every 1,000 people.
What is the birth rate?
Three examples of categories of jobs someone could have in geography.
What is business, government, and education?
Someone who studies people and their activities including their religion, language, and ways of life.
What is a Human Geographer?
The characteristics of a location that make it unique.
What is Place?
True or False: Absolute location is your location compared to other features in the area?
False. Absolute location is your exact location on Earth.
Two reasons why the death rate has decreased over the last 200 years.
What is better health care and more plentiful food?
The percentage of the earth's land that is liveable by humans.
What is 15%?
Areas of the Earth’s surface that have several common characteristics including land, natural resources, weather patterns, or population.
What is Regions?
How people affect their environment and how their environment affects them.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
True or False: Hunting wild animals is an example of Human-environment interaction.
True
People naturally want to live in places with these four characteristics.
What is fertile soil, mild climates, natural resources, and water resources?
One reason immigration has increased greatly in the past 200 years.
What is better transportation?
System used to determine an exact location.
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?
How and why people, ideas, and goods move from place to place.
What is Movement?
True or False: Human geographers study religion, language, and ways of life.
True.
Two "push" factors that would help convince someone to emigrate.
What is a shortage of farmland, or too few jobs?
The term to describe the average number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer.
What is population density?
System used to gather, store, and analyze information.
What is GIS (Geographic Informational System)?