Geography Vocabulary

What is geography?

• The study of the earth and its physical features

• The study of maps

• The study of how people make choices about how to satisfy their wants and needs

• The history of history

One of the five themes of geography that answers the question "where is it?" in relative or absolute terms

• Location

• Place

• Human-environment interaction

• Region

The exact spot of a place on the earth's surface.

• absolute location

• relative location

Where a place is located compared with one or more other places.

• absolute location

• relative location

One of the five themes of geography that answers the question "What is it like?" Place describes all of the characteristics (physical and human) that give an area its own special quality.

• Place

• Location

• Human-Environment Interaction

• Region

One of the five themes of geography that answers the question "what is the relationship between people and their surroundings" including how natural resources have helped or hindered human activities and how people have responded to the environment.

• Human-Environment Interaction

• Place

• Location

• Region

One of the five themes of geography that answers the question "How do people in one area relate to people in other areas?" This includes how people, ideas, goods, and information have moved from place to place.

• Movement

• Region

• Human-Environment Interaction

• Place

Movement of people from different places and finds out why people have moved throughout history.

• migration

• trade

• currency exchange

• cultural exchange

One of the five themes of geography that describes a bunch of PLACES that have something in common.

• Region

• Location

• Place

• Movement

Any of the seven largest bodies of land on earth.

• Continent

• Climate

• Country

• Island