Geography Terms Review

The exact location, like latitude and longitude or a street address…

• absolute location

• relative location

• geographical context

• geographical features

Where an event takes place and why there

• geographical context

• geographical features

• geography

• geographer

Like plains, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and oceans…

• geographic features

• geographic context

• geography

• geographer

A person that studies the Earth, its physical features, and environment and the effects of human interaction with them

• geographer

• geographical context

• geography

• geographical features

The study of the Earth’s features…

• geography

• geographer

• geographical features

• geographical context

The relationship between people and their natural surroundings…

• human-environment interaction

• movement

• location

• place

Describing what an area is like using human and/or physical characteristics

• place

• human-environment interaction

• movement

• region

The study of how people, goods, ideas move from place to place...

• movement

• place

• region

• location

A broad geographic area distinguished by similar features, like Bills Nation

• region

• place

• human-environment interaction

• movement

Approximately where a location is… the general description…

• relative location

• absolute location

• geographical context

• geographical feature