What is Geography?
the study of where things are found on Earth’s surface and the reasons for the locations
What is geography?
these two types of locations can help you tell someone where a place is
What is absolute location and relative location?
These lines run from North to South on a globe
What are lines of longitude?
a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities
What is a biome?
The line that separates the northern and southern hemisphere
What is the equator?
scientific research by amateur scientists
What is citizen science?
This theme of geography explores the uniqueness of a particular location.
What is place?
This line of longitude helps determine the change of one calendar day to the next
What is the international dateline?
The three climate zones
What are the tropical, temperate, and polar zones?
The cardinal directions
What is North, South, East, and West?
What is Geographic Information Science?
These two types of characteristics together provide keys to understanding human interaction with the environment.
What are physical and human characteristics?
These lines run east to west around the globe
What are lines of latitude?
The biome that Kentucky is located in
What is a temperate forest?
The two polar biomes
What is tundra and taiga?
to spread
What is diffuse?
This theme of geography focuses on the relationships between people in different places and people and the environment
What is movement?
Name the two latitude lines that encompass the area where the sun can be seen directly overhead
What is the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn?
the interaction between organisms living together in a particular environment
What is an ecosystem?
the study of weather
What is meteorology?
In geography we do these three things
What is analyze, collect, and share data?
What is a region?
This line of longitude is found at 0 degrees
What is the prime meridian?
the biome that receives the least amount of rain
What is a desert?
a symbolic representation of selected characteristics of a place, usually drawn on a flat surface
What is a map?