What Is Geography?
What is the study of Earth and its people?
Geography
What is the definition of absolute location?
the exact location
How do geographers describe place?
c. physical and human characteristics
The theme of __________ explores the relationship between people and the environment.
a. Human Environment Interaction
b. location
c. place
d. movement
a. Human Environment Interaction
In the theme of __________, we study how people, resources, and ideas move.
d. Movement
Which of the following is NOT a geographic term?
a. Locations
b. States
C. Regions
D. Place
B. States
Who creates maps?
c. geographers
d. historians
b. cartographers
Which is a human characteristic?
d. a skyscraper
People sometimes modify their environment to meet their needs. Which is NOT an example?
d. moving from one town to another
__________ is one way people, ideas, and materials move.
a. Migration
Which of the following is a spatial (space, position, size, and distance between objects) tool to study geography?
a. deed
b. journal
c. letter
d. picture
d. picture
Which of the following is used to describe relative location?
b. above
Which is a physical characteristic?
a. a pine forest
How does the environment affect humans?
b. it determines the clothing we wear based on climate
Why are regions organized?
a. to define political boundaries
b. to create countries and states
c. to make it easier for us to study them
d. to determine population density
c. to make it easier for us to study them
What is ONE of the five geographic terms we use to study geography?
location
place
human environment interaction
movement
region
What is used to find absolute location?
a. grid system
Which is not a characteristic used to define regions?
a. educational
b. economic
c. human
d. physical
a. educational
What is relative location?
where something is in relation to something else
Which region is based on political boundaries?
b. Dallas- Fort Worth
c. New England
d. The appalachians
b. Dallas-Fort Worth