Location
The position of something on Earth's surface (or a map)
What is location?
The test question
What is "the answer"?
Description of a certain area
What is place?
An area with at least one unifying physical or human feature
What is region?
The theme related to people, ideas, and resources moving over the Earth.
What is movement?
Uses coordinates or an exact address.
What is absolute location?
The class you're sitting in right now
What is 6th Grade Geography?
The two defining characteristics of "place"
What are physical and human characteristics?
Two ways regions can be divided
What are physical characteristics and human characteristics?
A reason for someone to leave their home.
What is a Push factor?
Uses nearby landmarks or directions to give location.
What is relative location?
Characteristics like language, religion, architecture, etc.
What is a human characteristic?
The outline of a region.
What is a boundary?
A reason for someone to move somewhere new.
What is a Pull factor?
The building at 7400 E Reno Ave, Midwest City, OK 73110
What is Midwest City Middle School?
Characteristics that are natural, like animals, landforms, and weather.
What is a physical characteristic?
The US region which Oklahoma is most commonly placed in.
What is the South?
The movement of people from one country to another.
What is migration?
The imaginary lines on Earth that can be used to give exact coordinates.
What is longitude and latitude?
How the ground or physical land is shaped
What is topography?
A region defined by cultural traits
What is a cultural region?
The spread of culture from one country to another.
What is Cultural diffusion?