Human Geography Vocab practice

a specific point on the Earth’s surface

• location

• formal region

• free enterprise

• region

economic system in which some large-scale business enterprises are government-owned and operated for the benefit of society

• communist economic system

• perceptual region

• socialist economic system

• place

area of the Earth’s surface that is defined by an interaction or connectivity

• region

• functional region

• location

• primary economic activities

economic activities focused on management, information processing, or research

• free enterprise

• secondary economic activities

• cultural landscape

• quaternary economic activities

an area distinguished by unique physical and human characteristics

• culture

• tertiary economic activities

• place

• formal region

area of the Earth’s surface that is defined by a perception of the people living there or by the general society and may not be based on objective data

• perceptual region

• primary economic activities

• place

• region

economic activities focused on the extraction of natural resources

• primary economic activities

• socialist economic activities

• primary resource

a spatial division of the Earth’s surface that shares a common characteristic

• dictatorship

• tertiary economic activities

• region

economic system in which the means of production are owned by the government for governmental control of the resources

• region

• communist economic activities

• democratic economic systems

area of the Earth’s surface that is unified by a measurable physical of human characteristic

• free enterprise

• formal region

• cultural landscape