Geography Basics
(2 parts)
1. What is the first theme of geography?
2. What question does it answer?
1. Location
2. Where is it?
This is a community of plants and animals that depend on one another for survival.
Ecosystem
This field of geography studies human activities and their relationship to cultural and physical environments.
Human Geography
In addition to 8 planets and a sun, our solar system contains these spheres of ice and dust.
Comets
1. The imaginary line that encircles the globe, dividing the earth into northern & southern halves.
2. The imaginary line at zero longitude used to measure longitude east to west.
1. Equator
2. Prime Meridian
List and describe the 2 types of location we studied.
1. Absolute location: Location using coordinates like latitude and longitude
2. Relative location: Location relative to other things.
The name for one half of the earth.
Hemisphere
Bonus!: The name for the OTHER half of the earth?
This field of geography focuses on the earth's physical features.
Physical Geography
2 PARTS!
1. What are four inner planets also commonly known as?
2. What are the four outer planets also commonly known as?
1. The Terrestrial Planets
2. The Gas Giants
This layer of the earth, composed of hot dense rock, is underneath the crust, but on top of the outer core.
What is the MANTEL?
Bonus: In order from inside-out, name 3 layers of the earth.
1. What is the 2nd theme of Geography,
2. What question does it answer?
1. Place
2. What is it like?
Bonus: Why might the description of a place change over time? Give an example
Name the 3 types of regions, and give an example of each.
1. Formal: example: The United States and Canada
2. Functional: example: Saint Louis and surrounding suburbs
3. Perceptual: example: The South
This branch of geography is concerned with the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere, especially as a means of forecasting weather.
Meteorology
This feature, not always shown on some solar system maps, separate the inner planets from the outer planets.
The Asteroid Belt
The two continents besides Australia, Europe, Asia, South America, and Antarctica.
What are North America and Africa?
BONUS: Africa is bordered by which two oceans?
This theme of geography studies the interrelationship between people and their physical environment.
Human-Environment Interactions
This theme of Geography seeks to answer: How are places similiar?
The studying and making of maps.
Cartography
The theory that the continents where once joined and then, like a couple in a sad song, drifted apart.
What is CONTINENTAL DRIFT?
BONUS: When the continents once where together, they formed this super-continent.
The air we breathe is part of this layer of the earth that includes the gases surrounding our planet.
What is ATMOSPHERE?
(100 points for each one! 1000 points possible!!)
Name a trait of culture that matches each description
1. The unspoken rules of how people react to other people, like handshakes, verbal greetings and goodbyes, etc.
2. How a society forms groups based on common interests, purpose, identity. Who is "us" and who is "them".
3. How people meet their basic needs
4. The expectations for how men and women should behave in a culture.
5. How we define property and personal space.
6. How knowledge is passed from one generation to the next.
7. How a culture views time.
8. How people in a culture spend their free time.
9. The methods by which a culture enforces and protects boundaries and expectations.
10. How a culture uses the environment around it to their advantage.
1. Interaction
2. Association
3. Subsistence
4. Gender Roles
5. Territoriality
6. Learning
7. Temporality
8. Play
9. Defense
10. Use of resources
This theme of geography focuses on how people, products, and ideas travel from one place to another.
Movement
This field of Geography might offer the opportunity to be a consultant to business or government. But more often, it involves the teaching of geographic concepts at all levels of education. (you are experiencing it right now!)
Geography Education
BONUS!!! WORTH 800 POINTS!!!!!
Name the planets in the solar system, in order, starting with the one closest to the sun.
1. Mercury 2. Venus 3. Earth 4. Mars
5. Jupiter 6. Saturn 7. Uranus 8. Neptune
Why is earth capable of sustaining life when other planets are not?
Give 3 examples.
1. It is in the "Goldilocks Zone" (Not too hot or cold, enough sun for photosynthesis but not so much that we fry)
2. The atmosphere that helps regulate our temperature, protect us from too much solar radiation, and has oxygen for us to breathe.
3. The presences of liquid water in large amounts
4. Soil
5. The right amount of gravity