General Geography
The scientific study of places, environments, and the relationship between people and their surroundings.
What is Geography?
_______________is concerned with the distribution and networks of people and cultures on Earth’s surface
What is human Geography?
Governments can only create and enforce _____ within its _________.
What are laws and borders?
Often, the first thing you want to know about a place is where it is __________ in space.
What is location?
A naturally occurring barrier between two areas.
What is a physical boundary?
What is the river that separates Texas and Mexico in Big Bend National Park?
What is the Rio Grande?
____________seeks to understand where things are found, why they are there, and how they develop and change over time.
What is Geography?
The natural environment is the primary concern of physical geographers
What is physical geography?
__________________ uses a combination of spatial, physical, and social science to tell a complex story of the world.
What is Human geography?
Definition of Border from National Geographic article.
What is a physical or political line that separates geographic areas?
Definition of Absolute location.
What is the exact spot on earth?
Three types of plate boundaries
What are divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries?
What theme are the Suez and Panama Canal an example of?
What is Human-Interaction?
It allows geographers to identify patterns, understand the interconnectedness of places and processes, and explain human and physical features through the use of tools like maps, leading to a more comprehensive understanding of the complexities of the world
What is Spatial Perspective?
Geomorphology
What is the study of landforms and how they change?
Population, Movement, Culture, Human-Interaction, Politics and Government, & Borders.
What do Human Geographers Study?
The Border article's description for the Hawaiian system of Ahupua’a?
What are slices of pizza?
What is the Acronym for the 5 themes of geography?
What is MRLIP?
________form between areas where people speak different languages
What are linguistic boundaries?
In india, ___ _______ are spoken, each by more than 10,000 people.
What are 122 languages?
The one word that creates the difference between boundary and border.
What is imaginary?
_______are powerful databases that collect all types of information (maps, reports, statistics, satellite images, surveys, demographic data and more) and link each piece of data to a geographic reference point, such as geographic coordinates
What is GIS?
Havasupai and Hopi, have lived in and around the canyon for centuries.
Where is the Grand Canyon?
The natural border between France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees Mountains?
Geographers group places into __________.
What are regions?
______________, more often called borders, are created by people to separate areas governed by different groups
What are political boundaries?
Type of movement is American music (hip hop, country, pop) spreading globally through media?
What are ideas and culture?
_________ is 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) wide and over 243 kilometers (151 miles) long, separates the two countries with barbed wire fences, land mines and armed guards
What is the Korean DMZ?
____________ is perhaps the most basic geographic techniques.
What is mapmaking or cartography?
These are some categories for ________ Modification, Adaption, Dependence, Challenge
What is Human Interaction?
The Schengen area in Europe.
What is the EU?
The world can be divided into __. _________ regions.
What are 10 natural?
A congressional district is an area that elects a representative to the U.S. House of Representatives. After the U.S. Census, which is taken every _____ years, the _________of a state may grow or shrink enough to gain or lose a representative in the House. When this happens, congressional district lines are redrawn in a complicated and controversial process called ________.
What are 10 years, population, and redistricting?
Studying ________________ provides a framework for understanding the "where" and "why" of global challenges.
Why human geography is essential for a global issues class?
Sudan and Egypt have quarreled for decades over a region called _________. This triangle of land along the Red Sea is rich in the mineral manganese, which is essential to iron and steel production.
What is Hala'ib?
________directing their attention to the general geographic characteristics of a_________.
What are regional geographers? & What is region?
Four aspects of Movement.
Three reasons for protecting borders.
What are invaders, natural resources,military advantage,
Migration is a result of __________________.
What are push and pull factors?
Define Economic Boundaries.
What divides people with different incomes, or levels of wealth?
MOVEMENT: Poverty, overcrowding, lack of jobs, and schooling, prejudice, war, and politcal oppression are examples of _______ factors.
What is push factor?
MOVEMENT: Higher standard of living, employment, and educational opportunities, rights, freedom, peace, and safety is an example of. ______ factor.
What is a pull factor?
_______________is part of the Pacific Ocean between China, the Philippines, Vietnam and other countries, and it has many natural resources. ______ has claimed much of the South China Sea and, in the 2020s, increased its military presence there to increase its hold. The other nations reject their claim and accuse them of encroaching on their territory.
What is the South Sea of China, and Who is China?
Hot dry summers, cool to mild winters, open forests, some clumps of trees, many shrubs, herbs, and grasses.
What is the Mediterranean?