What is Geography?
This is the basic tool of geography
What is a map?
First writer to use the term geography
Who is Eratosthenes?
Every variation in the landscape
What are landforms?
A river and all of its tributaries
What is a river system?
Deep cracks in the earth's surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions
What are faults?
Two branches of geography
What are physical and human?
The proponent of the heliocentric theory
Who is Copernicus?
Wide areas of level land
What are plains?
The amount of water that flows from a river
What is discharge?
What is Pangaea?
The art of mapmaking
What is cartography?
Famous Roman geographer who promoted the geocentric theory
Who is Ptolemy?
Wide areas of flat land that rise abruptly above surrounding land
What are plateaus?
The largest system of freshwater lakes in the world
What are the Great Lakes?
The breakdown of rocks by water, plant roots, and temperature changes
What is weathering?
What is hydrosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere?
The first known ancient people to study the earth extensively
Who are the Greeks?
Spongy areas of land that look dry but are covered with wet organic materials
What are bogs?
Rivers that feed other Rivers
What are tributaries?
This is the most powerful form of erosion
What is running water?
This theme of geography is defined by human and physical characteristics
What is place?
Made it easier to locate places on a map by perfecting the grid
Who is Hipparchus?
Areas of visible standing water with vegetation that has its roots submerged in water
What are marshes?
Bodies of water fully enclosed by land
What are lakes?
Areas that are barren most of the year because of low amounts of precipitation
What are wastelands?