Place
What is the term for a deep, narrow valley with steep sides?
Canyon
What are latitude lines also referred to as(Another name for them)?
Parallels
What does the interaction between people and their environment consider?
How people affect their natural surroundings and how their environment affects them.
How is topography defined?
The arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.
What does the movement category explore?
How people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
Name the seven largest landmasses on Earth. (At least 4, what are these landmasses called?)
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica
Explain the concept of absolute location.
The exact position of a place on Earth expressed in terms of latitude and longitude.
How do people adapt to their environment?
By making adjustments in their lifestyle, building methods, and practices to suit their surroundings.
What are the physical characteristics that include landforms, climate, and soil?
Physical geography
Define 'movement' in the context of geography.
The migration of people, transportation of goods, and diffusion of ideas across regions.
Define the term "delta."
A landform where a river splits into smaller paths before flowing into a larger body of water, typically characterized by sediment deposits.
What divides the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres?
The Equator
Give an example of a way that the environment can affect human life.
Climate can influence agricultural practices and settlement patterns.
Identify a region characterized by having less than 10 inches of rain a year.
Desert
How do goods typically move from one place to another in a globalized economy?
Through trade networks, shipping, and transportation infrastructure.
What physical feature describes a series of mountains or hills that form a line?
Range
How is relative location defined?
The position of a place compared to another place.
What is meant by "modifying the environment"?
Changing the natural environment to meet human needs, such as through construction or agriculture.
What are the characteristics of a peninsula?
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
Provide an example of how ideas can move between cultures.
Through trade, travel, and communication technologies.
What is the pointed top of a mountain called?
Peak
What is the Prime Meridian, and what does it divide?
The Prime Meridian is the line of 0° longitude that divides the Earth into eastern and western hemispheres.
how human actions can impact natural surroundings.
Actions such as deforestation, pollution, and urbanization can degrade ecosystems and biodiversity.
Name a continent that is entirely located in the Southern Hemisphere.
Australia
Analyze the impact of migration on cultural exchanges.
Migration can lead to the blending of cultures, sharing of traditions, and introduction of new ideas and practices.