Vocabulary 1
Refers to the specific location of something by using the grid system of latitude and longitude.
What is Absolute Location?
This refers to people's lifestyle, values, beliefs and traits.
What is Culture?
This can be visualized as a series of vertical lines around the Earth.
What is Longitude?
This refers to the position of something on the Earth's surface.
What is Location?
This is the capital of Mississippi
What is Jackson?
The location of a place relative to other places
What is Relative Location?
Culture complexes that are grouped together, such as ethnicity, language, religion and other cultural elements.
What is Culture System?
This can be visualized as a series of horizontal lines around the Earth.
What is Latitude?
This considers characteristics that make one location different from all other locations on Earth. Geographers describe the two characteristics as physical and human.
What is Place?
This is the nickname of the state of Mississippi.
What is the Magnolia State?
The physical characteristics of a place such as climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude and elevation.
What is Site?
The area within which a particular cultural system prevails.
What is Cultural Region?
Locations that are at the Equator have this coordinate.
The physical and human characteristic of a place provide keys to understanding the interrelationships between people and their environment.
What is Human-Environmental Interactions?
This music genre is well known in the state of Mississippi...especially in the 1900s
What is Blues/Jazz?
The location of a place relative to another place.
What is Situation?
An assembly of culture or geographic regions, the most highly generalized regionalization of culture and geography.
What is Cultural Realm?
This is a vertical line that has been designated as 0 degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This focuses on the interconnections between areas.
What is Movement?
This is the 2nd longest river in the United States.
What is "The Mississippi River"?
The ratio between an actual distance on the ground and the length given to that distance on the map, using the same measurement.
What is Scale?
An easy way to describe a particular location is by its place name
What is Toponym?
Latitude and Longitude are both expressed using these.
What is "a pair of degree coordinates"?
What is "the specification of North or South"?
What is "the specification of East or West"?
This is a basic unit of geographic study.
What is Region?
These famous people were born and raised in the state of Mississippi. Please name at least 1.
What is Oprah Winfrey?
What is Elvis Presley?
What is Jim Henson?
What is Britney Spears?