Tools of Geography

An example of an absolute location would be.........

• St. Louis and Chicago

• United States of America

• The South

• 37.02 degrees N, 93.20 degrees W

What is the location theme about?

• How people affect their environment

• The relationship among places

• Where something is

• A place with unifying characteristics, such as climate or history

What is the place theme about?

• A place with unifying characteristics, such as climate or history

• A location’s physical and human features

• Where something is

• How people affect their environment, the physical characteristics of their natural surroundings, and how their environment affects them.

What does relative location tell you?

• a place's exact position on Earth

• why people moved to a certain place

• a place's position in relation to other people and places

• how a place is similar to other places

Which of the following is a human characteristic of a place?

• landforms

• climate

• vegetation

• language

How do people, goods, and ideas get around?

• human-environment interaction
• location
• movement
• region

Which of the following could define physical region?

• a language
• a mountain range
• a religion
• political borders

A map showing mountains, rivers, oceans, elevation is what type of map?

• Political
• Physical
• Thematic
• Nothing

A map showing boundaries of countries is what type of map?

• Political
• Physical
• Thematic
• Nothing

What is the map scale used to figure out? 

• the number of countries on the map
• which direction is north, south, east and west
• the real distance between places on the map
• what the map symbols mean