Term | Definition |
location | Where a place is |
place | What it's like when you get there |
region | places sharing a common trait |
human-environment intereaction | how we affect the environment and how the environment affects us |
movement | how goods, people, ideas, etc move from place to place |
the 5 Themes of Geography | geographers use them to describe the world (MR HELP) |
physical charecteristics | things that are created by nature, naturally occurring, including climate, vegetation zones, and natural resources |
human charecteristics | things that are created by humans, including population, culture, buildings, and roads |
culture | attitudes, customs, beliefs of a group |
cultural interdependence | when regions share similar culture traits, or rely upon another for trade, goods, manufacturing, communication, etc. |
absolute location | the exact spot on earth a place can be found, uses latitude and longitude coordinates OR an address |
relative location | an approximate description of a place's location, uses another location as reference |
push factors | negative factors that force people to move |
pull factors | positive factors that entice people to move |
latitude | runs east to west, AKA parallels, measures distance north and south of the equator |
longitude | runs north to south, meets at North and South Pole, AKA meridians, measures distance east and west of the Prime Meridian |
adaptation | how people/animals change to fit their environment better |
natural resources | things that are created naturally that humans use |
nonrenewable resources | resources that do not replenish, once they're gone, they're gone forever (coal, oil, precious minerals) |
renewable resources | resources that replenish naturally, like water, wind, and solar |
migration | when people move from one place to another |