Definitions
The study of the world's physical features.
What is physical geography?
Name the two main branches of geography.
What are physical and human geography?
Differences between maps and globes.
How is a map flat and a globe is spherical?
A flat drawing that shows all or part of Earth's surface.
What is a map?
The science of making maps.
What is cartography?
Name which of the five themes of geography is associated with airports, highways, and the migration of people from one place to another.
What is movement?
Similarities between maps and globes.
Where they both show what the world looks like and where mountains, deserts, and oceans can be found.
A spherical, ball-shaped, model of the planet.
What is a globe?
The physical and human features that define an area and make it different from other places.
What is the landscape?
Identify three levels at which a geographer might study the world.
What are the local, regional, and global levels?
Differences of location and place.
How is it that location tells the description of where a point on Earth is where as place is the physical and human features that define an area such as its character?
Geographers study things gathered from these.
What are satellites?
The study of weather and what causes it.
What is meteorology?
Name three features of physical geography.
What are landforms, water, and climate?
Three differences between human geography and physical geography.
What are people, communities, and landscapes?
In some cases, these are often the best two tools geographers can use.
What are a notebook and tape recorder?
A part.
What is an element?
Name two specialized fields of geography.
What are cartography and meteorology?
The six essential elements are similar to the five themes of geography.
How is it that both are systems geographers use to study the world?
A tool used by geographers to create, update, and compare maps.
What are computer programs?