Unit 1 Practice Problems

the study of the earth and everything on it

• Geography
• Longitude
• Region
• Human Environment Interaction

A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

• Temperate
• Place
• Prime meridian
• Longitude

how people affect their environment and how their environment affects them

• Human Environment Interaction
• Distortion
• Physical Map
• Road Map

how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another

• Equator
• Physical Map
• Movement
• Region

An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.

• Region
• Movement
• Boreal
• Latitude

a change in the shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map

• Polar
• Distortion
• Physical Map
• Latitude

distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees

• Place
• Human Environment Interaction
• Region
• Latitude

Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees

• Longitude
• Place
• Temperate
• Sub-Tropical

0 degrees North/South

• Equator
• Polar
• Sub-Tropical
• Geography

0 degrees east/west

• Dry
• Prime meridian
• Latitude
• Longitude