What is Geography?
They study landforms, water, and climate.
Who are physical geographers?
the shape of the Earth
What is a sphere?
0 degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
The purpose for the development of the Mercator map projection.
What is navigating the oceans?
An example of a push factor for immigration
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
They explore the ways people interact with the environment.
Who are human geographers?
The imaginary line exactly in the middle of the North Pole and the South Pole.
What is the Equator?
Lines of longitude near the North Pole and South Pole.
What is close together?
A way to show 3D Earth on a flat (2D) surface
What is a map projection?
An example of a push factor for migration within America.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Drinking, cooking, bathing.
What are reasons people need water?
The degree (number) latitude of the Equator.
What is 0 degrees?
Lines of longitude near the equator
What is further apart?
a mapmaker
What is a cartographer?
California Gold Rush and Transcontinental Railroad
What are pull factors?
Farming
What is a reason people settle near rivers/ water?
The number of time zones the Earth has.
What is 24?
another name for lines of longitude
meridians
The problem with map projections
What is size, shape, location of places are distorted or changed?
An example of forced migration
What is slavery, when over 10 million Africans were forced to leave Africa to become slaves in the Americas.
Transportation
What is a reason people settle along rivers/ near water?
Another name for lines of latitude.
What are parallels?
The time in California if it is 6:00PM in New Jersey.
What is 3:00PM?
3 factors for migration/ immigration
What are push, pull, and forced migration?
The ancient land bridge that hunters crossed from Asia to North America while hunting reindeer and mammoths.
What is Beringia?