Review 1 Geography and the Social Studies Flashcards
What is a societies total way of life
Culture (religion, food, clothing, traditions, language, celebrations etc)
What is the study of PEOPLE and how they interact with each other and Earth
Social Studies
What is the study of money and how wealth and goods are produced, distributed and used
Economics
the study of artifacts
Archeology (the remains of past civilizations)
the study of Earth
Geography
What are the five themes of geography
Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region
What is called where something is located could be ABSOLUTE (exact-latitude/longitude) or RELATIVE (approximation compared to other things)
Location
What is how you describe something/what makes it unique
Place
how we affect the environment and how the environment affects us
Human-Environment Interaction
What is how things, people and information get from place to place
Movement
What is the term how we divide the earth for study
Region
What is the average weather of a place over a 20-30 year period
Climate
What is everything that surrounds living things
Environment
What can be affected by the environment
Human culture
How does the environment affect how people live? How did people change their environment to suit their needs?
Human-Environment Interaction
