Chapter 1: Social Sciences and Decision Making

Location is ...

• The way people, goods and ideas travel from place to place.
  
• Areas of the world that have common physical, human or cultural characteristics.
  
• Where a place is on Earth.
  

the northern-most ocean in the world

• Arctic Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Indian Ocean

We live on which continent?

• North America
• South America
• Europe
• Australia

What is Relative Location?

• Describing the location in relation to another place

• Locating a place using road intersections

• Using latitude and longitude to find a location

• Locating an address with a street number and zip code

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Human Geography?

• Customs practiced

• Mountain height

• Spoken languages

• Belief systems

What kind of relationship do humans and their environment have?

• Humans adapt to their environment

• Humans are not influenced by their environment

• The environment never changes, so humans do not need to adapt to it

• The environment is not influenced by humans and their actions

What is Geography?

• The study of the past that shapes our world today

• The study of different types of government

• The study of how decisions about distribution of resources are made

• The study of physical features and how humans interact with them

What is History?

• The story of the past that shapes our world today

• The study of different types of governments

• The study of how decisions about distribution of resources are made

• The study of physical features and how humans interact with them

Movement is ...

• The way people, goods and ideas travel from place to place.
  
• The way people and the environment affect each other.
  
• Where a place is on Earth.
  

When we describe a place by saying it has a beautiful lake and mountains, we are describing its

• Physical Characteristics
• Human Characteristics