Types Of Geography
Geography that studies land, water, climate, and other natural features.
What is physical geography?
Looking carefully at the details of a source or object uses this Big 6 skill.
What is observation?
A person or group that moves from place to place instead of permanently settling.
What is a nomad?
Hunter-gatherers got most of their food by doing these two things.
What are hunting animals and gathering plants?
The imaginary line at 0° latitude.
What is the equator?
Geography that studies people, religion, language, traditions, and ways of life.
What is cultural geography?
Before studying evidence, historians should first determine what they are trying to find out.
What is asking questions?
Nomads frequently moved to find these two important resources.
What are food and water?
True or False: Hunter-gatherers usually lived in permanent cities.
What is false?
The imaginary line at 0° longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Mountains, rivers, deserts, and climate belong to this type of geography.
What is physical geography?
Using evidence to make an educated conclusion about something you cannot directly see.
What is infer?
True Or False....Because nomads moved frequently, they usually carried a lot of possessions.
False, they carried few possessions
Hunter-gatherers depended heavily on their surroundings for survival. Their surroundings are called this.
What is the environment?
A location at 20°N, 40°W is in these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
Religion spreading from one group of people to another is an example of this kind of geography.
What is cultural geography?
Checking information against another source uses this Big 6 skill.
What is compare/corroborate?
Name ONE reason nomads might leave an area even if it previously had plenty of food.
What are changing seasons, migrating animals, climate changes, or resources running out?
Give ONE major difference between hunter-gatherers and people living in permanent settlements.
What is hunter-gatherers moved for resources while settled people remained in one location?
This part of a map explains what its symbols and colors mean.
What is the key/legend?
A historian studies how mountains affected where a civilization settled AND how religion shaped its society. Name BOTH types of geography being studied.
What are physical and cultural geography?
You've examined the sources, compared the evidence, and decided what the evidence shows. Which FINAL Big 6 step are you completing?
What is conclude?
Explain the connection between nomadic life and natural resources.
What is nomads moved when resources such as food and water became scarce or moved elsewhere?
Why were hunter-gatherer populations generally smaller than later farming settlements?
What is an unpredictable or limited food supply made it harder to support large populations?
You travel from 25°N, 10°W to 25°N, 30°W. Which direction did you travel?
What is west?