What is Geography Alex?
Themes of Geography
Tools of Geography
Maps & Projections
The Power of Geographic Data
Spatial Concepts
Human-Environmental Interaction
Regional Analysis
100
This is the study of Earth’s physical features & how they affect humans, plants, animals, & cultures
What is Geography?
100
This theme deals with the geography question of “Where it is".
What is location?
100
This is a tool that is a scale model of the whole earth.
What is a globe?
100
Identify this map projection: (extended from north & south poles)
What is a Mercator?
100
Geographers use these levels to study a problem or issue of an area.
What are scales of analysis?
100
This is the exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found.
What is absolute location?
100
This is the idea that the environment puts limits on society, but people can adjust/modify the physical environment to overcome those limits.
Whats is environmental possibilism?
100
This is a geographic area with common characteristics &/or pattern of activity.
What is a region?
200
This is a person who studies the spatial variations of Geography.
Who is a Geographer?
200
This theme deals with the geography question of “What is it like”.
What is place?
200
This is a tool that shows locations of places, landforms, bodies of water, and where they are in relation to other parts of the earth.
What is a map?
200
Identify this map projection: (shows the true size)
What is Gall-Peters?
200
This scale of analysis that looks at problems & issues at a province, state, city, county, or neighborhood level.
What is a local scale?
200
This is a place in relation to other places around it.
What is relative location?
200
This is the idea that the environment sets the possibilities for humans & society.
What is environmental determinism?
200
This is a geographic area that has common attributes tradtionally defined by economic, political, social, or environmental characteristics.
What is a formal region?
300
These are the three categories of Geography.
What are physical, human, & environmental?
300
This theme deals with the geography question of “How are the places similar or different”.
What is region?
300
This is the person responsible for making maps.
Who is a cartographer?
300
Identify this map projection: (removes the distortion) - BIG WORM!
What is Goode Homolosine?
300
This scale of analysis that looks at problems & issues at a portion of a country or a region within a country.
What is a regional scale?
300
This is a specific geographic location on Earth defined by physical & human characteristics.
What is a place?
300
This is a term that is used to describe how land has been changed or mofified to be used for a specific purpose or task?
What is land use?
300
This is a geographic area that is organized around a center point, or a node.
What is a functional region?
400
He was the Greek who invented the word "Geographia".
Who is Eratosthenes? (Air-Uh-Toss-Thu-Knees)
400
This theme deals with the geography question of “How do people relate to the physical world”.
What is the human/environment interaction?
400
This a network of satellites tha are used to determine the location of something on the earth's surface. (It was very commonly used today)
What is a Global Positioning System? (GPS)
400
Identify this map projection: (shows distortion near the poles) - It's his neighborhood!
What is Robinson?
400
This scale of analysis that looks at problems & issues in a country or multiple countries.
What is a national scale?
400
This is the interaction between two places declines as the distance between the two places increases.
What is distant decay?
400
This is the use of the Earth’s resources in a way that ensures those resources will still be there in the future.
What is sustainability?
400
This is a region that only exists becasuse people believe it exists.
What is a perceptal region?
500
This looks at how people & objects move through the evironment or space here on earth.
What is spaitial variation?
500
This theme deals with the geography question of “How do people, goods, & ideas move from one location to another”.
What is movement?
500
This is the main tool that geographers use to collect geospatial data.
What is a Geographic Information System (GIS)?
500
Identify this map projection: (spreads distortion across the map)
What is Winkel Tripel?
500
This scale of analysis that looks at global problems & issues.
What is a global scale?
500
This is the way objects are spread out over an area.
What is distribution?
500
These are natural resources that can be used multiple times without running out.
What are renewable resources?
500
This is the removal of details in data to simplify information to fit the general narrative.
What is generalization?