Geography Unit Vocabulary Terms

Your absolute or relative position

• Location

• Place

• Region

• Movement

• Human-Environment Interaction

The Human and Physical features/characteristics of an area

• Location

• Place

• Region

• Movement

• Human-Environment Interaction

A larger area of the world where the land, climate, people, and culture have similar characteristics

• Location

• Place

• Region

• Movement

• Human-Environment Interaction

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

• Location

• Place

• Region

• Movement

• Human-Environment Interaction

How people and their environment affect one another

• Location

• Place

• Region

• Movement

• Human-Environment Interaction

The study of people, places, and environments on earth

• Geography

• Climate

• Natural Resources

Overall weather in a region over a long period of time

• Geography

• Climate

• Natural Resources

Materials found in nature such as minerals, oil, and farm land that are used by living things

• Geography

• Climate

• Natural Resources

Distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees

Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian, measured in degrees