Continents
This continent is home to the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
What is North America?
The theme of geography that explains how and why people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
What is movement?
The theme that is an area that is defined by common features, such as climate, landforms, or culture?
What is a region?
This is how people affect their environment and how the environment affects people.
What is human-environment interaction?
This answers the question, "Where is it?"
What is location?
This answers the question, "What is it like there?" by describing a location's unique features/characteristics.
What is place?
This continent is the only one that is also a country and is known for kangaroos and the Great Barrier Reef.
What is Australia?
The internet, TV, and books are all ways that _____ can travel around the world.
What are ideas (or communication)?
This vast region in North America is known for its flat grasslands and is found between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
What are the Great Plains?
People depend, or rely, on the environment for things such as....
What is water, air, soil, land (or anything similar).
Describing a place as "down the street from the library" is an example of this type of location, which explains where something is in relation to nearby things.
What is relative location?
Natural features like mountains, rivers, climate, and animals are all this type of characteristic of a place.
What are physical characteristics?
The continent known for its vast deserts, like the Sahara, and the longest river in the world, the Nile.
What is Africa?
_____ are physical items like clothes, food, and electronics that are transported from one place to another for people to buy.
What are goods?
The famous region in Australia that is a huge, remote (not many people live there), and dry area in the center of the continent.
What is the Outback?
Wearing shorts in the summer or building houses with thick walls in cold climates are examples of people doing this to live with their environment.
What is adapting?
Your home address is an example of this type of location because it describes one, exact spot on Earth.
What is absolute location?
The languages, beliefs, traditions, and buildings that people create/build are all this type of characteristic of a place.
What are human characteristics?
The continent that includes the countries France, Germany, and Italy, and is famous for the Eiffel Tower.
What is Europe?
What is migration?
The Mediterranean Region, found in southern Europe, is known for its warm climate and olive farming. This is an example of which theme?
What is region?
When farmers clear land to plant crops or people build roads in their communities, they are doing this to the environment to fit their needs.
What is modifying (or changing) the environment?
These two imaginary lines (one is horizontal, one is vertical) on a globe are used to find the absolute location of any place on Earth.
What are latitude and longitude?
The marshes, hot and humid climate, and the presence of alligators are physical characteristics that help describe the Everglades... a unique place in this southern state.
What is Florida?
Label the continent where the Nile flows, the one with the Outback, the one home to France and Germany, and the one that includes the Canada and Mexico.
What are Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America?
Any path on land or sea that connects different places for the purpose of buying and selling goods.
What is a trade route?
The region in Arkansas where major companies (Walmart, JB Hunt, Tyson) have their headquarters.
What is Northwest Arkansas?
Building these across rivers is a major way humans change the environment to control flooding and create electricity.
What are dams?
Found at the absolute location of 0 degrees latitude, this imaginary, horizontal line divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Famous structures created by people, like the pyramids in Egypt of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, are this type of human characteristic.
What are landmarks?