What Is Geography
Geographer's Tools
Themes and Elements of Geography
Physical Geography
Human and Other Fields of Geography
100
The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.
What is Geography?
100

Use this to create, update, and compare maps.

What are geographic information systems?

100
A specific description is called this.
What is absolute location?
100
The study of the world's physical features.
What is physical geography?
100
The science of making maps.
What is cartography?
200

A field that studies people and the relationships among them.

What is HASS?

200
Spherical, or ball-shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is a globe?
200

Human geography involves the study of this.

What is the way humans interact, move, analyse, damage, and preserve the world around them?

200

Landscape degradation can be caused by these factors.

What is human interaction, environmental changes, unsustainable business practices, climate impacts, climate change, migration of people and animals?
200
The study of how people make and spend money.
What is economic geography?
300

A region defined by a specific form of environment and habited animals.

What is a biome?

300
Information gathered by these produce images.
What are satellites?
300
Includes its land, water, climate, plants, and animals.
What is environment?
300
These five elements make up physical geography.
What is its landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants?
300

Human geographers can help design these.

What are cities and towns?

400
Part of the world that has one or common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas.
What is region?
400
Flat drawing that shows all or part of Earth's surface.
What is a map?
400

Geographers want to know why and how people do this.

What is move, migrate, settle, trade, travel?

400
This is the major reason that geographers study the physical world.
What is to learn how it works?
400
These are the two largest branches of geography.
What is Physical and Human Geography?
500
To study a place's geography, we look at these two features.
What are its physical and human features?
500

What choropleth maps show and how.

What is a range of information represented by shades of colours indicating intensity/rate of data?

500

There are seven key themes of Geography. Name three of them.

What is space, change, place, scale, environment, sustainability, interconnection?

500
Earth is made up of hundreds of these.
What is physical features?
500
The study of the world's people, communities, and landscapes.
What is human geography?
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