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What is Geography?
It is the study of the world, its people, and the landscape they create.
What is Physical Geography?
It is the study of landforms, water bodies, and other physical features.
Human-made machines that orbit Earth. What are these?
Artificial Satellites
How many kinds of location exist. What are these?
Two, absolute and relative location
To fully understand how the world works, geographers often look at places at three different levels. What are these levels?
Local level, Regional Level and Global level.
What is the main focus of human geography?
People, their cultures, and the landscapes they create.
Percentage of the Earth’s surface covered by salt water
71%
What does an area’s environment include?
Land, water, climate, plants and animals.
Geographers use many tools to study the world. What are these?
Maps and globes and Satellite image among others.
Geography is divided into two main branches. what are these?
Physical and Human Geography.
What is a region?
Region is a part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas.
What is Human geography?
Human geography is the study of the world’s people, communities and landscape.
What are the five themes of Geography?
Location, Place, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement.
Who was the first person ever to use the word Geography?
Eratosthenes
What is a map?
A map is a flat drawing that shows all or part of Earth’s surface.
What is cartography?
Cartography is the science of making maps.
What are the six essential elements and geography standards?
The World in Spatial Terms, Human Systems, Places and Regions, Physical Systems, Environment and Society and The Uses of Geography.
Mention other field of Geography.
Cartography, Hydrology and Meteorology
What is a globe?
A globe is a spherical, or ball-shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is meteorology?
Meteorology is the study of weather and what causes it.