geography test 2 foundations of geography test 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| geographer | a social scientist trained to study the earth and the ways people interact with it |
| human characteristic | the characteristics of a place that are created by human |
| political scientist | a social scientist trained to study government and citizenship |
| relative location | where a place is located in relation to another place |
| pull factor | an advantage that attracts people to a place |
| anthropologist | a social scientist trained to study the cultural development of humans |
| five themes of geography | an organizing framework for geographic inquiry |
| economist | a social scientist trained to study the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services |
| push factor | a problem that results in people moving away from a place |
| historian | a social scientist trained to study and write about the past |
| natural characteristics | the characteristic of a place that occur naturally |
| sociologist | a social scientist trained to study human societies and how humans organize into groups |
| absolute location | the precise point where a place is located on earth |
| map scale | this shows how the distance on a map compares to the actual distance on the earth |
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