Vocabulary
The study of Earth, how it shapes people’s lives and is shaped in turn by people’s activities
What is Geography?
Name the large bodies of water (at least 3) and landforms (at least 3).
Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, island, mountain, river, plain, valley, desert
0° or the equator indicating north or south of the equator
What is the number and name of the degree from which latitude is measured?
The way of life or a group of people, including their daily habits, beliefs, and arts
What is culture?
The daily habits, beliefs, and arts of people in a certain region.
What are different aspects of culture?
An area with common features that set it apart from other areas
What is Region?
Physical regions are made up of landforms and cultural regions are divided by people's daily routines, beliefs, and habits.
What is the difference between physical or cultural regions?
0° or the prime meridian that passes through Greenwich, England, indicating east or west of the prime meridian
What is the number and name of the degree from which longitude is measured?
In Buddhism, people believe that their ancestors come back in many forms, including animals.
Why do some people not eat meat?
Some people do not eat meat.
What is an example of someone’s values affecting how they live?
A feature of Earth’s surface, such as a mountain range, plain, or plateau
What is Landform?
Geography will allow you to gather speed when riding downhill, it shows that hills are a landform.
How is riding downhill on a bike an example of geography in action?
The intersection or coordinates on a map.
What is it when latitude and longitude together cross each other?
Your relatives. You have an immediate or nuclear family and an extended family. Your immediate family includes your father, mother and siblings. Your extended family includes all of the people in your father and mother's families.
What are family members?
Traveling or sharing with others introduces new foods to other cultures.
How might the Indian culture have come to adopt Chinese or American foods?
The weather pattern that an area has over a long period of time
What is Climate?
Meeting people contributes to the understanding of the culture of a region (it helps you understand the people).
Why is it helpful to meet the people in a place when learning about their region?
N, E, S, and W indicate the direction away from the equator or the prime meridian.
What do the letters after the degree numbers mean?
language, religion, clothes, music, food
What is one thing that helps make up a cultural region?
People tend to adopt what the people around them are doing and regular daily activities.
Why are we ‘creatures’ of our cultures?
Ways of living that people practice regularly over time
What is custom?
Geographers can study different sections of different countries, and compare them and their differences.
Why do geographers divide the world into regions?
Parallel
What are lines that run in the same direction and are always the same distance apart?
It has a government, organized under a Constitution. The Chief Minister is the Head of the State Government and elected by voting.
What kind of government does India or United States of America have?
Cultures change when daily habits and beliefs change over time.
What brings changes in culture?