Location and Movement

Question 1

What is absolute location?

Answer 1

Mathematical. Exact spot
Latitude, Longitude, Coordinates
(i.e. latitude is the measurement of the angular distance of a point on the Earth’s surface, measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds, north or south from the equator)

Question 2

What is relative location?

Answer 2

1. The place where something is in comparison to something else
2. Described by landmarks, time, direction or distance from one place to another and may associate a particular place with another

Question 3

What is cognitive?

Answer 3

It is a mental map. A person’s personal point-of-view perception of their world

Question 4

What are the three ways that humans interact with the environment?

Answer 4

1. Human adaptation to the environment.
2. Human modification to the environment
3. Human dependency on the environment

Question 5

What moves?

Answer 5

1. People/ life forms
2. Products
3. Ideas

Question 6

How do geographers study movement?

Answer 6

1. Systems - a pattern of routes that connect places together (i.e. highway or river system, a container freight system)
2. Flow - the volume of people, products, information, and other things that move along a system