Location, Location, Location
Map Masters
People and Places
Climate and Resources
Vocabulary Challenge
100

What is the exact position of a place on Earth called?

What is Absolute Location?

100

What system of intersecting lines helps us locate places on a map?

What is a Grid?

100

What is the study of Earth, its people, places, and environments?

What is Geography?

100

What word describes the usual weather conditions of a place over a long period of time?

What is climate?

100

What do we call something found in nature that people can use?

What is a natural resource?

200

What two measurements are used to identify absolute location?

What is latitude and longitude?

200

What are the horizontal lines that circle Earth from east to west?

What are Parallels of latitude?

200

What term describes how people are spread across an area?

What is Population distribution?

200

Farming, manufacturing, mining, and tourism are examples of what?

What is Economic activity?

200

What word means to change something to better meet people's needs?

What is modify?

300

What are the numbers used to identify a specific location using latitude and longitude called?

What are coordinates?

300

What are the imaginary lines running from the North Pole to the South Pole?

What are Meridians of longitude?

300

A city has many people living close together, while a rural area has fewer people spread farther apart. What geographic concept does this demonstrate?

What is Population distribution?

300

Forests, rivers, minerals, and fertile soil are all examples of what?

What is natural resources?

300

The buying, selling, or exchanging of goods and services is called what?

What is trade?

400

Savannah is located at approximately 32° N, 81° W. What type of location is being given?

What is Absolute location?

400

Which coordinate comes first when writing geographic coordinates: latitude or longitude?

What is latitude?

400

Building dams, roads, cities, and farms are examples of humans doing what to their environment?

What is Modifying the environment?

400

A region's climate and natural resources can influence the types of jobs found there. What term describes these jobs and businesses?

What is economic activity?

400

What term refers specifically to the north-south position of a location on Earth?

What is latitude?

500

Atlanta is approximately 34° N, 84° W. Which number represents its longitude?

What is 84° W?

500

Why do geographers use latitude and longitude together?

To identify the precise or absolute location of a place on Earth?

500

Why might population distribution be greater near rivers, coastlines, or major cities?

What is access to resources, transportation, jobs, water, and/or trade?

500

How can climate affect economic activity?

What is climate can influence agriculture, tourism, resources, jobs, and other economic activities?

500

What term refers specifically to the east-west position of a location on Earth?

What is Longitude?