Social Studies - The United States in Spatial Terms

The geography theme that answers the question: Where is it?

• Location

• Place

• Human Interaction

• Movement

One of seven large landmasses of the Earth.

• Relative location

• Continent

• Absolute location

• Location

A region created when the Earth is divided in half

• Equator

• Prime meridian

• Hemisphere

• Political boundaries

The geography theme that answers the question: What is it like there?

• Location

• Place

• Region

• Movement

A row of connected mountains

• Basin

• Mountain range

• Desert

• Coastal plain

Physical characteristics are...

• geographic features that were not created by humans.

• geographic features created by humans.

Low-lying stretch of flat or gently rolling land is..

• Coastal plains

• Mountain ranges

• Plains

• Plateau

A flat land with higher elevation than a plain is..

• Plains

• Basin

• Plateau

• Coastal plains

A low piece of land between two hills or mountain ranges is..

• Valley

• Basin

• Mountain range

• Canyon

Low land that lies along a ocean is..

• Coastal plains

• Plains

• Canyon

• Basin