Lesson 1
The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create is
What is a Geography?
The study of the world’s physical features, such as landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants.
What is Physical Geography?
The five major themes of geography.
What is Movement, Human Environment Interaction, Region, Location, and Place?
Geographers use many ______ to study the world.
What is Tools?
The imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between North and South poles.
What is Equator?
The three levels that Geographers use to look at the world.
What is Local, Regional, and Global?
The process of cartography.
What is the science of making maps?
The specific location of a site, such as its address.
What is absolute location?
A technology that gives the exact location.
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)?
The measurement that is called Parallel Lines.
What is Latitude?
Geographers gather data by observing, measuring, interpreting, and studying it.
What is Geography as a Science?
the three basic needs that people have to meet.
What is food, water, and shelter?
____________ involves learning about why and how people move.
What is Movement?
This technology combines and provides information from many different sources.
What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?
The kinds of Map Projections.
Geographers study people and how they relate to each other.
What is Geography as a Social Science?
The study of the world’s people, communities, and landscapes.
What is Human Geography?
Geographers use ________ in their work
What is Theme?
The tools geographers most often use.
What is map and globes?
This projection shows true direction and to airplane pilots and ship navigation.
What is Flat-Plane Projection?
When geographers study how people live on a ____ ______, they look at a single city or town.
What is a Local Level?
Maps can display locations, as well as information about _______, _____, ___________.
What is a people, places, and environments?
Studying ________ helps geographers learn how places are alike and different as well as why places developed the way they did.
What is Region?
Places on a ____ might look to be farther apart than they really are, or their shapes or sizes might be changed slightly.
What is a map?
The four features that most maps have.
What is title, compass rose, scale, and legend?