Deep and Complex Terms Flashcards
What are the five themes of geography?
Location, Place, Human Environmental Interaction, Movement, and Region
What is Absolute Location?
Absolute Location is the exact area of a place, located by using coordinates.
What is Relative Location?
Relative Location is finding a place, by using another place as a reference.
What is Human Environmental Interation?
Human Environmental Interaction is where a human adapts or does something to survive in a particular environment.
What is Movement?
Movement is humans influencing the globe. For example, trade routes.
What is Place?
Describes characteristics of a certain location. For example, a person might describe a place as humid or cold.
What is Region?
Regions split the world into “small” units for geographic study.
What is Globalization?
Globalization is the process of humans doing something to influence the Earth internationally.
What is Imperialism?
Imperialism is a country or government gaining control of another place by influencing the place either indirectly or directly. Directly meaning grasping territory and engaging in war, and indirectly meaning gaining slow, political or military control.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
A period from the mid 1700s to early or mid 1800s where Europe, Great Britain, and the United States of America had a massive, new manufacturing system for products. For example, instead of making blankets in home by hand, people worked at factories, operating machines that made the blankets.
What is a trade route?
A trade route is a passage from one place to another, that trades knowledge, technology, and objects. A trade route is vital for countries to interact with each other, and is a form of globalization.
What is Polaris?
Polaris is the North star. Polaris was used in the past to calculate latitude.
What are the Poles?
The Poles are the tops of the Earth, mostly frozen with ice and snow.
