Location
The term location refers to
What is a particular place?
Physical characteristics are
What is a part of a places natural environment.
The three things that people need are
What is food, shelter and clothing?
The Geographical theme of movement includes
how people, resources, and ideas move.
An area that has similar characteristics
What is regions
Where something is in relation to something else?
Human characteristics
Human-environment interaction allows geographers to
What is explore the relationship between people and the environment?
A reason someone would move is
What is to choose a better job, more freedom, different resources, war, natural disasters or religious persecution.
We organize the Earth into regions
So that it is easier for us to study places with similar characteristics.
Absolute location is
a place that is an exact location?
Two examples of a places physical characteristics are
What is forests, mountains, oceans, rivers, landforms, bodies of water, climate, soils, biomes, natural vegetation, and animal life?
People can modify their environment to meet their basic needs by
What is building homes, schools, roads, irrigation, and farming systems?
Movement from one place to another
What is migration
What are two characteristics geographers use to define regions?
Physical, human and cultural characteristics.
Cartographers are
People who create maps?
Two examples of a place's human characteristics are
What is political boundaries of states, cities, towns, buildings, bridges, homes and other manmade features of a place.
A persons environment can affect
What is the kinds of clothes they wear, jobs they have, and the food they eat?
What is carrying goods from one place to another, using ground transportation (trucks), using planes, using boats?
This is used to find an absolute location
what is a grid or coordinate system?
The theme of place refers to
How we describe a place, typically using physical and human characteristics?
Two examples of human-environment interaction include
What is building homes, schools and roads to meet needs for shelter, education and transportation, or setting up irrigation and farming systems to meet agricultural needs.