Geography Vocabulary

What is cultural diffusion?

• the movement of people

• the movement of goods

• the movement of ideas

What is the term that means a way of showing the curved Earth on a flat surface?

• political map

• map projection

• physical map

What is the definition of geography?

• all the things that make up a people's way of life

• a way of showing the curved Earth on a flat surface

• a map that shows things like countries and states

• the study of people, their resources, and their environments

Which theme of geography is defined as "how humans positively and negatively affect, depend on and adapt to their environment"?

• Location

• Human-Environment Interaction

• Place

• Region

Goods sent to markets outside a country or region are called

• exports

• imports

• interdependence

• movement

Latitude and longitude are used to determine something's

• relative location

• absolute location

• geography

• place

A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides is a

• mountain

• plain

• river valley

• peninsula

A river valley is defined as

• land drained or watered by a river

• large areas of fairly level or gently rolling land

• land surrounded on 3 sides by water

• a unit on the Earth's surface in which the people or the geography share certain characteristics

A unit on the Earth's surface in which the people or the geography share certain characteristics is called a

• relative location

• place

• region

• geography

The distance north or south of the Equator is called _________________________, and the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian is called___________________________.

• longitude, latitude

• elevation, altitude

• latitude, elevation

• latitude, longitude