What are spatial relationships?
This conglomerate of places can have physical and human characteristics which define it
What are regions
This embodies the relationship between people and their physical environment
What is human-environment interaction?
The growth of food stuffs in existing locations with good soil is a human adaptation known as this.
What is Agriculture?
Tiered farms are a modification allowing for agriculture in these terrain types
What are mountains and hills?
has distinguishing characteristics defined by its features and surroundings
What is place?
The French Speaking part of Canada is an example of this type of region
What is a formal region
The dumping of toxic waste would be an example of what human-environment interaction?
What is pollution
In order to prepare an area with many trees for an apartment complex humans must do this to the area
What is clear cutting the trees?
These modifications alter the flow of rivers, generate electricity, and can create lakes.
What are dams?
A school of geography that focuses on climate, land, water, plants, and animal life
What is Physical Geography
Dominoes Pizza's delivery range which is centered around it is an example of this type of region
What is a Functional Region
Humans had to control this environmental feature to ensure steady food supplies
What are rivers?
Humans build and repair many of this adaptation in order to easily maneuver on the landscape
What are roads
We build these in windy plains to harness the power of the skies
What are wind turbines?
Also called cultural geography, this branch of geography focuses on human activities and their relationship to cultural and physical environments
What is human geography
The Bible Belt, so named due to people believing it is a very religious area, is an example of which kind of region
What is a Perceptual Region?
These environmental events can wreak havoc on human societies and destroy much of what we build
What are natural disasters?
Houses built on stilts is an adaptation allowing humans to protect their homes from this natural disaster
What is flooding?
These objects which crisscross the landscape are used to transfer valuable resources that are not solids
What are pipelines?
These people must have knowledge of physical and human geography of a place to plan things for clients
What are Travel Agents?
A region carved out for a specific group of people for them to have territory they can call their own would be a region built on this concept
What is Culture?
Humans have attempted to slow the growth of the Sahara Desert with this human-environment interaction
What is planting around the edge of the desert?
To farm in areas with low rainfall farmers will often plant crops that are resistant to this natural event
What is drought
This modification to retrieve precious materials and resources from the ground leaves large deep swaths of the landscape torn up like a scar
What is mining?