Geography Vocabulary Test

The study of people, their

environments, and the resources available to them

• Anthropology

• Psychology

• Geology

• Geography

Tells where a place is on

the surface of the Earth

• Place

• Location

• Movement

• Region

Measures north or south of

the Equator

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Location

• Exact Location

Measures east or west of

the Prime Meridian

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Exact Location

• Region

The location of a point

using latitude and longitude

• Location

• Exact Location

• Relative Location

• Place

Where one place is located

in relation to another

• Location

• Exact Location

• Relative Location

• Place

Description of an area

based on physical features and human characteristics

• Location

• Region

• Place

• Relative Location

How people have shaped and

been shaped by the places in which they live

• Region

• Human Environment Interaction

• Movement

• Geography

People, goods, and ideas

going from one place to another

• Location

• region

• Movement

• Geography

The way geographers divide the world by common characteristics

• Region

• Movement

• Place

• Location