Vocabulary Part 1
The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create?
What is Geography?
What is the circular object that houses the main directions on a map?
What is a Compass rose?
This is a major reason that geographers study the physical word.
What is to learn how it affects how people live, and to understand how people affect the physical world.
5 Themes: What theme is divided into two parts: relative and absolute?
What is location?
A square on a map that features essential information for understanding the map?
What is a map key or legend?
What is the art of making maps called?
Cartography
What are the three main categories of maps?
What are political, physical, and thematic?
A general description of where a place is located related to somewhere else?
What is relative location?
What type of location is found with coordinates?
Absolute location
The study the world's people, and how they connect to each other through culture, economics, and communication?
What is human geography?
Movement, Regions, Human-Environment interaction, Location, Place?
What are the 5 Themes of Geography?
Someone who is fleeing a dangerous situation to find shelter somewhere else
What is a refugee?
Studying why storms form in some places on Earth more than others can fall under this theme of geography?
What is physical geography?
The defining human characteristics of a place, region, or group of people that reflect their values, morals, ideals, and heritage
What is culture?
What is the term for a long term move from one place to another to live in that new location?
The name for the ring of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean
What is the "Ring of Fire"?