A field that studies people and the relationships among them.
What is social science?
200
A geographer helping the people who live in a city or town to plan for future changes.
What is local level?
200
These are used to create, update, and compare maps.
What are computer programs?
200
This theme describes the features that make a site unique.
What is place?
200
The study of the world's landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants.
What is physical geography?
300
A specific description of where a place is located.
What is relative location?
300
Geographers divide the world into parts to study them by looking at physical characteristics like mountains, climates or plants native to an area and may also look at human characteristics such as language, religion, or history.
What is regional level?
300
A spherical, or ball-shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is globe?
300
A part
What is an element?
300
The science of making maps.
What is cartography?
400
An area's land, land, water, climate, plants, and animals.
What is environment?
400
Geographers studying how how events and ideas from one region affect people in other regions.
What is global level?
400
The two best tools a geographer can use.
What are a notebook and a tape recorder?
400
How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
What is the world in spatial terms?
400
The study of the world's people, communities, and landscapes.
What is human geography?
500
The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.
What is geography?
500
A geographer looking at the transportation system of London, England.