Geography
What do geographers study?
oceans, plant life, people, landforms, and how people affect their Earth and how the Earth affects them
What is a grid?
some maps use a grid of parallels and meridians
What are the parts of a map?
a compass rose is a model of a compass
the scale on a map tells you the relative distances on the map to the real world
What are the 5 themes of geography?
movement, place, region, location, human-environment interaction
What is place?
geographers study the physical and human features of a location
What are the 2 ways to think about location?
absolute location - describe the places exact position on the Earth
relative location - explains where a place is by describing places near it
What is location?
geographers begin to study a place by finding its location
What is movement?
helps explain how people, goods, and ideas act from place to another
What are the questions geographers ask them?
where are things located
why are they there
What is human-environment interaction?
geographers study how people affect or shape physical characteristics of their natural surrondings
What are regions?
geographers compare the climate, pollution, land, and history at one place to another
How latitude and longitude from the global grid?
parallels of latitude
the hemisphere
What is geography?
geography mixes up the physical and human aspects of our world into one field of study
What is a key?
explains what the symbols on a map
What is a geographer?
someone who analyzes the Earth from many points of view