1st Quarter Geography Flashcards
What is absolute location?
Absolute location is an exact location of something often done in longitude and latitude.
What is relative location?
Relative location is a non exact but genehral location of something.
What is place?
A place is an area that is defined by everything in it. All places have features that give them personality and distinguish them from other places.
What is human Human-environment interaction?
Human-environment interaction looks at the relationships between people and their environment; how people adapt to the environment and how they change it.
What is movement?
Movement refers to the way people, products, information and ideas move from one place to another. This can be local such as how did you get to school today, or it can be global such as how did humans get to North America?
What is a formal region?
Formal region is a term used in geography to describe designated areas that have official boundaries such as counties, cities, states and countries. Most of the formal regions are characterized by relative uniformity such as people sharing a particular language.
What is a functional region?
Functional regions are defined by their connections. For example, the circulation area for a major city area is the functional region of that paper.
What is a vemauk region?
Vernacular regions are perceived regions, such as “The South,” “The Midwest,” or the “Middle East;” they have no formal boundaries but are understood in our mental maps of the world.
What is civilization?
A highly developed culture.
What’s a city state?
A city and the surrounding countryside.
Whats polytheism?
A belief in more than 1 god.
What is theocracy?
A type of government which one person rules both religiously and as king.
What is cuneiform?
The Sumerian way of writing using wedge shaped symbols pressed into clay tablets.
What’s an empire?
A group of lands under one ruler.
What’s a delta?
An area formed from soil in a river.
What’s a pharaoh?
The ruler of ancient Egypt.
