Unit 1 Geography Vocabulary

The exact location of a place on earth. The most common way is to identify the location using latitude and longitude coordinates.

• Absolute Location

• Relative Location

• Population density

• Settlement patterns

The position of something relative to another landmark. For example, you might say you're 50 miles west of Houston.

• Urbanization

• Distribution

• Relative location

• immigration

The relationships between people and their environment; how people depend on and adapt to the environment and how they modify and change it

• Human-environment interaction

• Corridors

• Population Density

• Barriers

Any event or force of nature that has catastrophic consequences, such as avalanche, earthquake, flood, forest fire, hurricane, lightning, tornado,tsunami, and volcanic eruption

• Agriculture

• Emigration

• Sustainable

• Natural disasters

Where and how people choose to settle

• Per capita

• Population density

• Settlement Patterns

• Migration

A measurement of population per unit area or unit volume

• Urbanization

• Population density

• barriers

• Per capita

Per each person

• Relative location

• Distribution

• Sustainable

• Per each person

The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area

• Distribution

• Agriculture

• immigration

• Settlement patterns

Able to be maintained at a certain rate or level; able to be upheld or defended

• Human-environment interaction

• Urbanization

• Sustainable

• Corridor

The process of making an area more urban (city)

• Urbanization

• Migration

• Immigration

• emigration