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Location
Place
HEI
Movement
Region
100
Location is where this type of study begins.
What is Geography?
100
Place describes what two characteristics of Geography?
What are Human and Physical Characteristics?
100
Human-Environment Interaction is the study of Geography that looks at how humans do WHAT to the environment?
What are adapt to and modify the environment?
100
This animal moves the MOST across the Globe.
What are Humans?
100
Name the Three Characteristics of "Region."
What are Formal, Functional, and Vernacular?
200
Location includes two specific characteristics.
What are absolute and relative?
200
Give three examples of some of the Physical Characteristics of a Place.
What are mountains, beaches, rivers, animals, plants, etc.?
200
Name one way Human Interaction has been BAD for the Environment
Various answers - what is... chopping down trees in the rain forest, polluting a river, destroying animal habitats, etc.
200
This is the part of Geography that is used to study the immigration of people to America.
What is Movement?
200
Give an example of a Formal Region.
What are cities, states, counties, and/or countries?
300
Absolute location is used with which two imaginary lines?
What is Latitude and Longitude?
300
Give three examples of the Human Characteristics of Geography.
What are architecture, land use, religion, food, transportation, communication networks, cultural items?
300
In what ways has Human Interaction been GOOD on the Environment?
Various answers - what is... saving endangered species, breathing provides carbon dioxide to feed plants, learning how to care for injured wild animals and releasing them back to the wild, etc.
300
This is an example of Movement that involves Transportation of Goods throughout state to state in our own country.
Answers can include Semi-Trucks, Trains, and Air Planes.
300
Which characteristic of Region would you use to describe the area a newspaper circulates. Please explain.
What is Functional? Functional Regions are designed by connections and a newspaper circulates in its Functional Region.
400
This type of location associates two places together. For example, Lake Butler is north of Gainesville.
What is Relative Location?
400
How are Place and Location related?
Location is the absolute or relative location of a place and Place is specifically where Location is referring to.
400
Give an example of how Human Technology advanced due to the Interaction between Humans and Environment. Remember the major US river we discussed and the invention because of the bad currents.
What is the Steamboat because of the Mississippi River?
400
Describe how Movement can relate to an animal. Give a specific example.
Example - What is the Movement of Birds relates to the migration that birds take for the winter?
400
Give a good example of a Vernacular Region. Use the class map to explain your answer.
Answers will vary and can show the southern United States as "The South" or show California as in "The West", etc.
500
Extra Credit Question - Using the Latitude and Longitude map in the classroom, this major United States city is located at approximately 38 degrees N and 77 degrees W.
What is Washington, D.C.?
500
Extra Credit Question - Give a specific example of a Place.
Various answers - a park is where trees and birds are. A fire station is where fire engines are. And more specifically, for the extra credit - Egypt is where the Pyramids are, China is where the Great Wall of China is, California is where the Red Wood Forest is, The Grand Canyon is in Arizona, etc.
500
Extra Credit - Give an example of an Environment Characteristic that prohibited Human Interaction. For example, we have one big area in Florida that we discussed prevents people from living in a certain area.
What are the Florida Everglades as an example?
500
Extra Credit - Using the "Made In..." on the tag of a piece of your clothing (like a shirt or jacket) use the class Globe to find that country and then describe the Movement of your item from the country it was made in.
Various answers - for example, a shirt made in Thailand could have traveled up through China and Japan before being shipped or flown across the Pacific to reach the United States.
500
Extra-Credit. We all consider ourselves to live in "Gator Country." This describes what specific characteristic of Region this is and explain what living in "Gator Country" means.
What is Vernacular Region? We live in "Gator Country" because we are so close to the University of Florida where the Florida Gators play!