Regions, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction
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| What is absolute location? | show 🗑
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| What is relative location? | show 🗑
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| show | The physical and human features of a location, which tell what it is like there
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| What is human-environment interaction? | show 🗑
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| show | How people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another
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| show | A group of places with a common characteristic
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| What are physical features? | show 🗑
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| show | Features of an area that describe the people or were made by the people, like religion, government, and buildings
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| show | River valleys, because they provide freshwater for drinking, irrigating crops, bathing, and traveling; Plains, because they are flat and therefore good for farming and easy travel
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| show | The Sahara Desert, because it includes a group of places that have a physical feature (desert) in common
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| Which of these would be considered a "human region"? Genoa Township or the Persian Gulf? | show 🗑
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| show | A group of places with a physical feature in common, such as desert, mountains, or a certain climate
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| What is a human region? | show 🗑
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| What are some positive and negative effects of volcanic activity? | show 🗑
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| show | Negative: Overcrowding, pollution, faster spread of diseases
Positives: More convenient/efficient when people live closer together, people can share ideas/culture easily
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| show | Negative: Floods certain areas, loss of habitats for animals, disrupts fish migrations
Positives: Prevents flooding in certain areas, hydroelectric power
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| show | Overuse of land for farming or animals overgrazing (eating grasses in an area without ever letting the land recover)
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| show | Movement of the earth's surface caused by the shifting of tectonic plates
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| What is the difference between weathering and erosion? | show 🗑
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| What is volcanic activity? | show 🗑
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| show | Negative thing that makes someone want to move away from a place; examples include war, poverty, oppression
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| What is a pull factor? Give some examples. | show 🗑
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| Look at the map on this website. http://go.grolier.com/atlas?id=mtlr081 Does this map show physical or human regions? How do you know? | show 🗑
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| Describe one region you see on this map. http://go.grolier.com/atlas?id=mtlr081 | show 🗑
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