Geography Basics 1
This is the definition of Geography.
What are the human & non-human features of Earth?
North, South, East and West
What are cardinal directions?
Hot and dry throughout the entire year; very little rainfall
What is an arid climate?
Water, Coal, Trees, and Oil.
What is a natural resource?
This climate features all four seasons, but it has a cool summer.
What is a continental cool summer?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
A map that shows someone boundaries between countries and states.
These are climates that feature all four seasons with a warm/hot summer.
What is Continental Warm Summer?
A reason to go somewhere.
What is a pull factor?
This is a reason to LEAVE a place.
What is a Push Factor?
Buildings, roads, and population are some examples.
What are human features of Geography?
A group of places that share similar features.
What is region?
What is a Maritime climate?
This is defined as people moving from one location to another.
This describes where a place is.
What is the Geography Theme of Location?
This describes how people, goods, and ideas get from place to place.
What is the Geography Theme of Movement?
This map shows you features of landscape such as mountains, rivers, and elevation.
What is a physical map?
This climate is found in the Southern U.S. states and has hot summers and cool winters.
What is Humid Subtropical?
More factories = more jobs = more people = BIGGER CITIES.
What is industrialization?
This climate is hot/dry in the summertime and cool/rainy in the winter.
What is the Mediterranean Climate?
This is giving location by saying one place is near another.
What is relative location?
This is giving location by using coordinates.
What is absolute location?
This climate is hot, humid and wet all year long.
What is Tropical Wet?
Humans interact with their environment in a positive/negative ways, and the environment does the same thing.
What is the Geography Theme of Human-Environment Interaction?
The rise/growth of Urban Cities.
What is Urbanization?