Studying Geography
The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.
What is Geography?
The study of the world's human geographic features- people, communities and landscapes,
What is Human Geography?
A location with a specific description.
What is absolute location?
A flat drawing that show all or part of Earth's surface.
What is a map?
The east and west lines in the grid of a globe?
What are latitude lines?
The human and physical features that make a place unique.
What are landscapes?
The study of the world's physical features- landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants.
What is Physical Geography?
A location with a general description.
What is a relative location?
Geographic Information System?
What is GIS?
The equator or prime meridian divide the Earth into these.
What are hemispheres?
This helps us view the world in a new way.
What is World Geography?
The science of making maps
What is cartography?
Location
Regions
Movement
Human-Environment Interaction
Place
What are themes of Geography?
This uses 24 satellites to transmit information to give the exact location.
What is a GPS?
(Global Positioning System)
A map feature which is used to explain what symbols on the map represent.
What is a Legend/Key?
A part of the world that has at least 1 common feature.
What is a region?
The study of weather and what causes it.
What is meteorology?
The essential element the does relate to the theme of location.
What is The World in Spatial Terms?
This item is easier to work with to show small area like cities and shows more information.
What is a map?
3 kinds of maps we worked with in lesson 5.
What are Political, Physical, and Thematic/Climate?
The 3 levels geographers use to help fully understand how the world works.
Local Levels
Regional Levels
Global Levels
Eratosthenes
Who is the father of Geography?
The number of essential elements.
What is 6?
A group of databases.
What is GIS?
A cylindrical, conic, and flat-plane.
What are map projections?