Unit 3 Vocabulary Human Geography

5 Themes of Geography

• Five ideas that help you learn about the Earth

• The effects humans have on the environment and vice versa

• Things that attract people to a certain location

• The features of everyday life shared by a group of people

Movement

• The movement of people from one country to another

• One of the 5 Themes of Geography, explains how and why people, ideas, and goods go from place to place

• A cruel system where people are bought and sold and made to work without pay

• a Core Democratic Value that means we value the differences in people

Human/Environment Interaction

• One of the 5 Themes of Geography, an area with common geographic features

• Soil that is good for growing things

• The effects humans have on the environment and vice versa

• The features of everyday life shared by a group of people

Migration

• The process of bringing water to dry land through ditches or pipes

• When people change to fit the environment in which they live

• To come to a country to live there

• The movement of people from one country to another

Push Factors

• Things that cause people to move away from a certain location

• Things that attract people to a certain location

• One of the 5 Themes of Geography, an area with common geographic features

• A cruel system where people are bought and sold and made to work without pay

Pull Factors

• Things that cause people to move away from a certain location

• Things that attract people to a certain location

• One of the 5 Themes of Geography, an area with common geographic features

• A cruel system where people are bought and sold and made to work without pay

Slavery

• Five ideas that help you learn about the Earth

• When people change to fit the environment in which they live

• A cruel system where people are bought and sold and made to work without pay

• a Core Democratic Value that means we value the differences in people

Underground Railroad

• To come to a country to live there

• The movement of people from one country to another

• A cruel system where people are bought and sold and made to work without pay

• a secret system of routes, safe places, and people that helped slaves escape to freedom in the north or Canada

Immigrate

• To come to a country to live there

• The things that people believe in that unite all Americans

• Soil that is good for growing things

• The process of bringing water to dry land through ditches or pipes

Region

• One of the 5 Themes of Geography, an area with common geographic features

• One of the 5 Themes of Geography, explains how and why people, ideas, and goods go from place to place

• The things that people believe in that unite all Americans

• Things that cause people to move away from a certain location