66 Candylane drive, Oklahoma is an example of this type of location
What is Absolute Location?
100
This is the region where the United States is located
What is North America?
100
This is a term geographers use for similarities among places
What is a Geographic Patterns?
100
Described by landmarks, time, direction or distance. From one place to another.
What is Relative location?
200
Geographers use this characteristic/type of place to study main languages, customs, and beliefs
What is Place, Human Characteristics?
200
This is the region that has the Amazon Rain Forests
What is South America
200
Geographers define this as a group of places with similar features
What is a Region?
200
Geographers use this characteristic/type of place to study Landforms (mountains, rivers, etc.), climate, vegetation, wildlife, soil, etc.
What is Physical Characteristics?
300
Geographers study these 5 themes of geography
What is Human Environment Interaction, Place, Movement, Regions and Location?
300
This feature on the map divides the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern Hemisphere
What is the prime meridian?
300
There are 7 of these large land masses on the earths surface
What is a continent?
300
Geographers use this as an example of Formal Regions
What is
Regions defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (States,
Countries, Cities)
Regions defined by similar characteristics (Corn Belt, Rocky Mountain
region, Chinatown).
?
400
Geographers study these three types of Regions to understand the similarities and differences from place to place
What is Formal Region, Functional Region and Vernacular Region
400
This is a region where almost no one wants to live, there is no economy, and its really really cold.
What is Antarctica?
400
A GPS is an example of this type of computer system that geographers use to create maps and analyze patterns using many layers of data.
What is a Geographic Information System (GIS)?
400
Geographers study "Fads, Trends, What's popular" and the use of "Mail, Phones, computer (email)" to better understand these two types of movement.
What is Information Movement and Idea Movement?
500
These are the three types of movement that geographers study
What is Human movement, information movement and idea movement?
500
Geographers study these seven continents to gain a better understanding of the different regions of the world
What is North America, South America, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia and Europe?
500
A type of thinking that involves thinking about the space on Earths Surface, Including where places are located and why they are there
What is Spatial Thinking?
500
Geographers use this as an example of Vernacular Regions