Lesson 1
This science is the study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.
What is geography?
This is the study of the world's landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants.
What is physical geography?
This theme of geography looks at how and why people and things move.
What is movement?
This is a flat 2D representation of the Earth's surface.
What is a map?
Mapmakers use this to represent the distance between points on a map.
What is a scale?
What is landscape?
THis is the study of the world's people, communities, and landscapes they've made.
What is human geography?
This theme of geography focuses on areas that share common characteristics.
What is region?
This is a spherical, 3D, or ball-shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is a globe?
This part of a map is also known as a key and explains what the symbols on the map represent.
What is a legend?
A field of science that studies people and the relationships among them.
What is social science?
This is the science of making maps.
What is cartography?
This theme of geography studies how people interact with their environment in many ways.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This line is used to divide the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is latitude?
What is the equator?
This type of map is used to show specific or special topics.
What is a thematic map?
A part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas.
What is region?
This is the study of water on Earth.
What is hydrology?
This theme of geography can be split into two forms, absolute and relative.
What is location?
This line is used to divide the earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is Longitude?
What is the Prime Meridian?
This type of map is used to show the physical features of a region.
What is a physical map?
Studying the relationships among people who live far apart may be an example of studying geography on this level.
What is the global level?
This si the study of weather and what causes it.
What is meteorology?
This theme of geography describes the features that make a site unique.
What is place?
This is a directional indicator that shows which way is North, South, East, and West on a map.
What is a compass rose?
This type of map is used to show the borders between countries, their capital cities, and other places.
What is a political map?