Studying Geography
Geography Themes
Geography Essential Elements
Branches of Geography
Everything
100

What is social science?

A field that studies people and the relationships between them

100
Location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions
What is the five themes of geography?
100
build on the five major themes of geography and include the uses of geography
What is the six essential elements?
100
the two main branches of geography
What is physical and human geography?
100
Human geographers study three main areas
What is people, communities, and climate?
200

What is local geography?

Studying Geography at a town or community level

200
An absolute location
What is a specific spot on Earth?
200

What jobs/careers can you do if you study Geography?

  • Geotechnical engineer
  • Geographical information systems (GIS) analyst / technician / operator / consultant
  • Applications specialist
  • Remote sensing scientist / analyst
  • Geospatial analyst
  • Hydrologeologist, hydrological analyst
  • Urban/ transport planner
  • Development planner
  • Natural hazards researcher / analyst
  • Project manager
  • Policy advisor

    • NGO / aid agency practitioner
    • Diversity officer / human rights advocate
    • Community development officer
    • Geohealth analyst
    • Recruitment advisor
    • Public relations executive

  • Research

  • Recovery preparedness coordinator
  • QA analyst
200
smaller areas of human geography
What is economic and urban geography?
200
The theme that looks at how and why people and things move.
What is movement?
300

Name three New Zealand Regions?

Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Taranaki,Bay of Plenty, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Tasman, Canterbury, Otago, Southland, West Coast

300
the theme place
What is the physical and human features that define it and make it unique?
300
element that deals with several of the same issues as the human-environment interaction theme
What is environment and society?
300
The study of weather and what causes it.
What is meteorology?
300
Maps and globes are similar and different. Explain how.
What is (answer to discretion of teacher)
400
The three levels at which a geographer might study the world and the one that covers the largest area.
What is local, regional, and global and the largest being global?
400
so people can use them to organize and guide their study of geography
What is the reason geographers created the five themes of geography and six essential elements?
400
deals with issues not covered in the five themes of geography
What is uses of geography?
400
Contribute to the work of other geographers by making maps that other geographers use to study different parts of the world.
What is cartographers?
400
two specialized fields of geography
What is cartography and meteorology?
500
They allow geographers to analyze more data at once and to get updates more often so they can track change.
What is satellite images and computers?
500
the physical and human features that define an area and make it different from other places
What is an area's landscape?
500
element that combines two of the five themes of geography
What is place and regions?
500
To learn how the physical world works and to help us prepare and adapt to changes
What is the reason we study physical geography?
500
human and physical geography are different and alike
What is (teacher discretion)
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