The World's Geography
The study of Earth & its people
What is geography?
This shows the landforms and bodies of water found in particular areas
What is a physical map?
A human-made object
What is an artifact?
Something written or created by a person who witnessed the event
What is a primary source?
Attempts to make maps of the entire globe
What is a projection?
What is a continent?
This shows the features that people have created like cities, states, etc.
What is a political map?
A preserved remain of early life
Stories, customs, and songs passed down from generation to generation
What is oral history?
This map projection is best if we are trying to find the actual size of continents compared to the others
What is a Homolosine Projection?
The equal half of the globe
What is a hominid?
Books, paintings, and media reports created by someone who was not present at the event
What is a secondary source?
This theme of geography asks, "What is it like?"
What is Place?
The pattern of weather conditions in a certain location over a long period of time
What is climate?
The imaginary line that measures distances east to west of the prime meridien
What is longitude?
In this Stone Age phase, early man learned to control fire
What is the Mesolithic Age?
An essay about the Stone Age written in 2026
What is a secondary source?
This is what you call a baby goat
What is a kid?
Location, Place, Region, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction
What are the themes of geography?
The two things that geographers use to represent the Earth
What are maps and globes?
A hominid skeleton found by Donald Johanson of Case Western Reserve University
Who is Lucy?
A letter from Abraham Lincoln to his wife when studying the Civil War
What is a primary source?
This is the most-watched YouTube video of all time
What is "Baby Shark Dance"?