Movement
Movement in geography studies the movement of three things: __________, __________, and __________.
What are people, goods, and ideas?
A region is an area grouped together because it shares something in __________.
What is common?
Cutting down trees to build homes is an example of which theme of geography?
What is human-environment interaction?
This line of latitude measures 0° and divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Place describes these two main features: __________ and __________.
What are physical and human?
The Underground Railroad is an example of which part of movement?
What is movement of people/ideas?
States grouped together as “the Midwest” is an example of which type of region?
What is a cultural region?
Wearing warm coats in Alaska during winter is an example of this type of human-environment interaction.
What is adaptation?
This line of longitude at 0° divides Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The Rocky Mountains, the Sahara Desert, and the Amazon River are examples of which type of characteristics of place?
What are physical characteristics?
Immigrants bringing pizza from Italy to the United States is an example of movement of what?
What are goods or ideas?
The Amazon Rainforest is considered a region because of its climate. This is an example of which type of region?
What is a physical region?
Building dams to control flooding is an example of humans doing what to their environment?
What is modifying it?
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is about 39.8°N, 77.2°W. This is an example of what type of location?
What is absolute location?
English being spoken in the United States is an example of this type of place characteristic.
What is human characteristic?)
Railroads helped link the East Coast to the West Coast in the 1800s. How did this change the movement of people and goods?
People moved westward; goods moved faster and cheaper
The United States can be placed into more than one type of region. Give one example of a political region and one example of a cultural region.
Political = states; Cultural = English-speaking or baseball-loving region.
Farmers in the Great Plains switched to new irrigation systems to grow crops in dry climates. Which type of interaction is this, and what does it show about technology’s role?
Modifying environment; technology makes new land usable.
You’re traveling from Gettysburg (39.8°N) to Miami (25.8°N). Using latitude, explain whether you’re moving closer to or farther from the Equator.
What is closer to the Equator?
Compare Gettysburg’s battlefield monuments to the Susquehanna River. Which is a human characteristic and which is a physical one, and why?
Monuments = human; River = physical.
The spread of smartphones across the world changed how quickly ideas move. Compare this to how slowly ideas spread along the Silk Road.
Smartphones = instant global communication; Silk Road = limited by distance and speed of travel.
Compare the Middle East as a cultural region (religion/language) and as a political region (countries/borders). Why might these different definitions cause conflict?
Cultural ties cross borders, but political borders separate groups.
Compare how people in the Netherlands (with dikes and canals) and people in the Sahara (with nomadic herding) have adapted differently to their environments.
Both show adaptation, but in opposite water extremes — too much vs. too little.
A map shows a city located at 45°N, 90°W. Explain why this exact point would look different if placed on a physical map versus a political map.
Physical = landforms, elevation, water features; Political = borders, cities, states/countries.
A city in Japan has skyscrapers built to withstand earthquakes. Explain how this is BOTH a human characteristic of place and connected to the physical environment.
Human = architecture; Physical = earthquake-prone landform region.