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Location
Place
Region
Movement
100
Define: Geography
What is The Study of the Earth- the Relationship between people and the environment
100
The human and physical characteristics of a location
What is a place?
100
What region are we in now?
New York State/ Manhattan/ NY County
100
Movement (Definition)
What is the migration of people due to social, political, and economic factors -Often leads to the spread of ideas
200
Define: Absolute Location
What is describes the place’s exact position on the Earth
200
Lakes, rivers, beaches, mountains, oceans, etc
What are physical characteristics of a location
200
Why is the Middle East considered a region?
Similarities in climate (dry/ desert), culture (religion), resources (oil), etc.
200
Give an example of an environmental and economic push/ pull factor
Environmental: Natural disaster (push), climate (push/pull) Economic: Job opportunities (push/pull), access to resources (push/ pull)
300
How Absolute Location is measured
What is latitude and longitude
300
Anything coming from human actions and ideas
What are human characteristics of a location
300
Name a region in the US that is grouped by a border. What makes it a region?
(Many answers- any city, state or county- explain similarities in human/ physical characteristics)
300
Give an example of a factor causing movement that could be considered a pull and push factor.
Possible Answers: climate, jobs (opportunities), food supply, etc
400
Define: Relative Location
What is explaining a place by describing places near it
400
The empire state building and the East River
What is a human and physical characteristic of NY
400
What physical characteristic(s) did the 6 earliest major civilizations have in common?
Fertile land/ access to rivers, lakes, and or oceans
400
War, disease, famine, prejudice
What are push factors
500
The relative location of the place where human life began
Many answers accepted (Relative location of northeast Africa) What is "northeast Africa", "Along the Nile River", etc
500
The Nile River, fertile land, farming, and hunting and gathering,
What are physical and human characteristics of the earliest human civilizations.
500
When are places grouped together as regions?
When they share similar physical and human characteristics
500
Give 2 push factors leading to the first human migration
Changes in climate (Ice Age/ Drought) and a lack of resources (Food/ Water)