What is Geography?
The study of earth and its features
What is geography?
A map that show the locations of rivers, mountains, and deserts
What is a physical map
Studies how people, goods, and ideas travel from place to place
What is the theme of movement?
Of the 6 elements of culture, this one includes family structure and political structure?
What is social organization?
A person who leaves their own country to live in another country
What is an emigrant?
Trees, water, minerals like iron
What are natural resources?
A map that shows the boundaries between countries and states.
What is a political map?
What is absolute location?
Christianity moving from Europe to North America through missionaries
What is an example of cultural diffusion?
A civil war forces a family to flee their country because it is no longer safe.
What is a "refugee"?
Where did this virus come from?
It is used to find the latitude and longitude of a place or the absolute location.
The location is 38 miles southwest of town.
What is relative location?
When person's rank is based on their parents' status rather than what they achieve.
What is social organization by birth(rite)?
A country experiencing high unemployment and widespread poverty
What are examples of "push factors" ?
The study of people and how their lives and actions affect their environment
What is Human Geography?
Converts measurements on the map to real-world distances.
What is the scale bar?
Farmers building irrigation systems to change their environment to fit their farming needs.
What is modification (HEI)?
This element of culture includes a country's laws and how much personal freedom its citizens have.
What is "Forms of Government?"
A family moves to a new country because it offers strong job opportunities and a stable government.
What are examples of pull factors?
Sorting countries, continents, and ethnic groups into categories to make them easier to study
What is the theme of Regions?
A map with a special focus on one topic, such as a map showing rainfall patterns across a region.
What is a thematic map?
When some describes the region they live in as the "Bible Belt" or "Tiger Nation" but there is no clear boundry.
What is a perceptual/vernacular region?
Fertile Crescent and the Nile River Valley
What are two examples of cultural hearths?
That category of push/pull factor would "risk of hurricanes and drought" fall under
What are examples of environmental catagory?