Basic Concept of Geography

Where something can be found on the earth.

• Direction

• Location

• Region

_____________ is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.

• Anthropology

• History

• Geography

Refer to the visible features of the environment

• Natural landscape

• Cultural landscape

The National Park Service defines a _________ as a geographic area, including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife or domestic animals therein, associated with a historic event, activity, or person, or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values.

• Natural landscape

• Cultural landscape

If the family is the basic unit of society what is the basic unit of geographic study?

• Direction

• Region

• Location