Human Geography
This is the branch of geography dealing with how humans affect, or are affected by, the physical world.
What is human geography.
This is an artificial river.
What is a canal?
What is one way maps can mislead us?
Including/excluding certain things. Drawing clear borders when none existed. Etc.
The Great Wave was drawn in this country, known for its tsunamis.
What is Japan?
This is the number of days of Christmas. Celebrated to honor the number of days between the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the Three Wise Men.
What is 12.
This large barrier protecting China from Mongolia is a famous example of human geography.
What is The Great Wall of China?
The Yellow River in China affects humans by...
Providing fertile land, a water source, flooding, etc.
These are the four Cardinal Directions.
What are North, South, East and West?
Volcanic eruptions occur in this geographic region that stretches across the Pacific Ocean from East Asia, to the Western Americas.
What is The Ring of Fire?
Though it seems like it has been around forever, this popular American holiday tradition began in 2005.
What is Elf on a Shelf?
It took roughly this many years to build The Great Wall of China that we know today.
What is between 2000 and 2500 years?
This is a bank of earth, built up to stop a river from overflowing.
What is a dike?
This is a mass of land surrounded by water on all but one side.
What is a peninsula?
DAILY DOUBLE!: Volcanoes and earth quakes are both the result of these objects rubbing against each other.
What are tectonic plates?
Celebrated for eight nights each year, this Jewish holiday commemorates the Maccabee victory over the Greeks, and re-claiming of the Temple of Jerusalem.
What is Hanukkah?
This is roughly how long the Great Wall of China is.
What is 13,000 miles?
This is a flat area made on the side of a hill to grow crops.
What is a terrace?
This is a collection of islands located near each other.
What is an archipelago?
Primarily transportation, but also irrigation.
DAILY DOUBLE!: Celebrated for seven nights each year, this American holiday draws from several different African cultures and traditions.
What is Kwanzaa?
Not all examples of human geography are physical things we can see. For instance, these pieces of human geography separate one country from another.
What are borders?
The fine, yellow-ish sediment that makes the Yellow River look yellow.
What is loess?
These differences are shown on the ethnolinguistic map of ancient China.
What are languages and ethnic groups?
This early earth quake detecting device was developed in ancient China. We still do not know for sure just how it worked.
What is the Seismoscope?
This is the country we believe the tradition of using Christmas trees began.
What is Germany?