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5 Themes of Geography - ANS 1. Location 2. Place 3. Region 4. Movement 5. Human-Environment Interaction Geography - ANS The study of the earth and the ways people live and work on it Human geography - ANS The study of how people and their activities vary from place to place. This includes economic, political, and cultural factors such as cities and countries, farms and factories, and ways of life Physical geography - ANS The study of how the earth's natural features vary from place to ...

human systems - ANS processes initiated by people that shape earth's surface and interact with plant and animal life to create, sustain, and modify ecosystems physical processes - ANS activities occurring in nature that shape the earth's surface physical systems - ANS processes occurring in nature that shape the earth's surface and interact with plant and animal life to create, sustain, and modify ecosystems systems - ANS physical and human processes that shape the earth's surface and i...

If I were to describe where I live using relative location, which of the following ways would be most accurate? - ANS I live near where Route 3 and I-95 meet. Why does distortion occur when making a map? - ANS Because the earth is a sphere Which of the following photos is the best representation of a hinterland? - ANS its the one with Aerial photograph of farmland with dotted trees Mountains are most commonly formed by which of the following types of tectonic plate boundaries? - ANS conver...

geography - ANS the study of everything on Earth perspective - ANS the way a person looks at something landscape - ANS the scenery of a place cartography - ANS the study of maps and mapmaking meteorology - ANS the study of weather region - ANS area with one or more common features grid - ANS pattern of lines parallels - ANS lines of latitude meridians - ANS lines of longitude hemispheres - ANS the equator divides the earth into two halves atlas - ANS a collection of maps in a book map...

The Five Themes of Geography: MR. HELP Movement, Region H.E.I., Location, Place - ANS MR. HELP What does the acronym stand for? Movement - ANS The import/export of people, ideas and goods around the world Movement: People - ANS Examples: immigration, emigration, forced migration due to conflict , disease or natural disaster Movement: Ideas - ANS Cultural Exchange: foods, music, games, religion Movement: Goods - ANS The transport of products around the world Region - ANS An area of the wo...

5 themes of geography - ANS Location, Place, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement. These are the foundations of Geography. Location - ANS Relative and Absolute are two characteristics of Location. Relative location - ANS the position of a place in relation to another place. Uses specific words to describe where a person is or what place they can be found. (Ex. Next to, nearby, around, West, North of). A person can even use Cardinal direction. This utilizes qualitative data. Abso...

WAVE CREST This is the top of the wave as water in a wave rises causes crest WAVE TROUGH As water in a wave falls WAVE HEIGHT Distance between the wave crest and trough WAVE PERIOD Time between waves WAVE FREQUENCY Number of waves that break on a beach in a given period of time WAVE STEEPNESS WAVE HEIGHT/WAVE LENGTH cannot exceed 1:7(this is the point at which the wave breaks) WAVE ENERGY In deep water the energy of a wave is proportional to the wave length X by the wave height(squ...

Exogenic river material - ANS Massmovement Erosion Sheetwash Endogenic river material - ANS From stream bed and bank Bed-load - ANS Includes larger particles which cannot be picked up by the current. They can be exogenic or endogenic Saltation - ANS Sand, pebbles and gravel are temporarily lifted and bounced along the river bed in a bouncing manner Traction - ANS This is when the largest cobbles and boulders are rolled along the river bed. The largest of those may only be moved during t...

Human geography - ANS a branch of geography that focuses on the study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the built environment, with particular reference to the causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity on the Earth's surface Physical geography - ANS the study of physical features of the earth's surface Absolute location - ANS The exact position of a place on the earth's surface. Relative location - ANS the location of something in rel...

absolute location - ANS The actual space a place occupies on Earth's surface acculturation - ANS The change that occurs within a culture when it adopts a practice from another culture agglomeration effects - ANS The cost advantages (external economies) for an individual company gained by locating near similar industries or companies agribusiness - ANS Commercial agriculture in which large corporations own and operate various steps in the production process with an emphasis on profit agri...