Geography & Culture Quiz Flashcards
Five themes of geography
Location, place, human environmental interaction, region, and movement.
Geography
The study of people, their environment, and their resources.
Location
A particular position on the earth’s surface.
Latitude measures…
Distance north to south
Longitude measures…
Distance east to west
Equator is a line of…
Latitude
Lines of longitude…
Converge at the poles and are largest at the the equator and change.
Latitude lines are…
Always the same distance
Place
Physical characteristics and human characteristics.
Physical characteristics examples…
Lakes and trees
Human characteristics examples…
Schools and homes
Human environmental-interaction
Two types of interaction. Hidden costs and adaption.
Hidden costs
Things humans do to negatively harm the environment
Examples of hidden costs
Deforesting and overfishing
Adaption
How humans made things changed
Movement
Movement of ideas, trade, migration.
Interdependence
When one group of people relies on another group of people for supply of something they don’t have.
Region
Area with common characteristics.
Characteristics that may define a region
Landforms, climates, religion, language.
Examples of region…
Puget sound, Africa
Climate zones have…
Two factors. Location and elevation.
Culture
All the things that make up a people’s entire way of life.
Seven elements of culture
Social organizations, customs and traditions, language, arts and literature, religion, forms of government, economic systems.
Social organizations
Family patterns- smaller units within a culture that work together to meet basic needs.