Geography Terms
What is the definition of a region?
Answer: An area that shares common physical or cultural characteristics.
What are push factors?
Answer: Reasons why people move away from a place.
Name the continent that is home to Brazil.
Answer: South America.
Which direction do lines of latitude run?
Answer: East–West.
Why do people live near water sources?
Answer: For agriculture, trade, and movement (all of the above).
Which type of region is the rainforest between the Tropics of Cancer & Capricorn?
Answer: Physical Region.
What are pull factors?
Answer: Reasons why people move to a place.
Name the continent south of Europe and across the Mediterranean Sea.
Answer: Africa.
Which direction do lines of longitude run?
Answer: North–South.
Give one way humans adapt to their environment.
Answer: Building structures, crop rotation, or creating evacuation routes.
Which two things give the absolute location of a place?
Latitude & longitude, and a street address.
Is “economic opportunity” a push or pull factor?
Answer: Pull Factor.
Name the continent that includes Australia and nearby islands.
Answer: Australia/Oceania.
What is the name of the line at 0° latitude?
Answer: The Equator.
Which theme of geography studies how people change the land?
Answer: Human-Environment Interaction.
What is the correct latitude of the Equator?
Answer: 0°.
Is “war” a push or pull factor?
Answer: Push Factor.
Identify the ocean between North America and Europe.
Answer: Atlantic Ocean.
What do we call the line of latitude at 23.5° North?
Answer: The Tropic of Cancer.
Which theme of geography explains how people and goods get from place to place?
Answer: Movement.
Which answer best describes the relative location of Europe?
Answer: North of the Equator.
Is “freedom” a push or pull factor?
Answer: Pull Factor.
Identify the ocean south of India.
Answer: Indian Ocean.
What is 0° longitude called?
Answer: The Prime Meridian.
Give an example of how humans depend on the environment.
Answer: Using rivers for drinking water, farming, or transportation.