The main question that element 1 asks about a place.
Where is it located?
200
When geographers study a place, they look at the plants, animals, landforms, and climate. These characteristics are called...
What are physical characteristics?
200
Give three examples of Physical Systems.
What are hurricanes, tornadoes, ecosystems, tsunamis, glaciers, climate zones?
200
This vocab word refers to the movement of ideas and information.
What is communication?
200
This vocab word refers to when humans adjust to better fit into their environment.
What is adapting?
300
This vocab word refers to the exact location of a place on Earth.
What is an absolute location?
300
When geographers study a place, they look at the population, language spoken, and jobs that people have in that place. These characteristics are known as...
What are human characteristics?
300
Name a way in which the Physical Systems of a place might impact your life or the decisions you make.
300
This vocab word refers to the movement of people and goods.
What is transportation?
300
This vocab word refers to how people change the environment that they live in.
What is modifying?
400
This vocab word refers to the location of a place in relation to another place.
What is a relative location?
400
The vocab word that we use when geographers study several places that have similar characteristics, and then group them together.
What is a region?
400
The name for a system in which plants and animals rely on each other for survival. Geographers study them when looking at Physical Systems.
What is an ecosystem?
400
Mr. Toerpe's favorite Human System
What are cars?
400
Describe at least three ways that humans either adapt to or modify their environment.
Many possible answers.
500
The relative and absolute locations of New Orleans.
What are 90W 30N, and South of St. Louis.
500
Name at least two similar places, explain how they are similar, and then name a region that we can group them into.
500
This recent Physical System greatly affected many of the Human Systems of Japan.
What is a Tsunami?
500
Name at least 5 different human systems.
Many possible answers.
500
Tell me at least two ways that you have used geography today. (can be any of the essential elements)