24/25 Geography Unit

The Appalachian Mountains kept the early settlers isolated from the west for many years. The mountains acted as a __________ ______________.

• Transportation Barrier

• Transportation Corridor

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

__________ ____________ __________ is the way people interact with, adapt to, and change the environment.

• a transportation corridor

• human-environment interaction

• human global interdependence

Which is an example of positive Human Environment Interaction?

• Oil tanker spills oil in the Gulf of Mexico

• People continue to burn more of the Amazon Rainforest

• Government workers build a bridge to cross the Trinity River

• Natural gas leak reported in La Port, Texas

Which of the following is not a transportation corridor?

• Rocky Mountains

• Brazos River

• Panama Canal

• Texas Highway 290

Which is not an example of infrastructure?

• neighborhoods

• forests

• street lights

• football stadium

Which is an example of a push factor?

• good schools

• unemployment

• low crime rate

• jobs

Which is a pull factor?

• war

• not enough food

• poor housing

• economic opportunities

Which is an example of negative Human Environment Interaction?

• Students planting trees on Earth Day

• Recycling is increasing

• more people are driving electric cars

• Forest fires continue to burn in California

Which is not an example of a transportation corridor?

• desert

• airport

• canal

• highway

Which of these will help find exact location?

• compass rose

• lines of longitude and latitude

• protractor

• calculator