The Branches of Geography
Landforms
Climates
5 themes of Geography
Other
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What is Physical Geography?
Is the study of the world's physical features: Land-forms, climate, bodies of water, soils and plants.
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What is Glacier?
Slowly moving river of ice.
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Divided into Tundra and Ice Caps.
What is the Polar climate divided into?
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What are Physical regions?
Areas that share the same climate, plants and animals.
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What is a Thematic map?
Specialized map that shows one feature such as population, water sources, temperatures, routes, soils types and resources.
200
The study of the water on earth .Geographers study rivers systems, floods causes, rainfall patterns and how people get drinking water. They try to protect the world’s supply of water.
What is Hydrology?
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Passage way of water connecting 2 large bodies of water.
What is a Strait?
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What are climates are determined by?
Temperature Rainfall Cloudiness Wind Pressure Humidity :)
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What are the 2 types of location?
Absolute Location Relative Location
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How many lines of latitude are there in all?
There are 180 line of latitude in all.
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What is Cartography?
The science if making maps. Maps are really important, long ago they were drawn by hand and weren’t accurate but now they are done on computers and satellite images.
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A body of water that is partly closed.
What is a Bay?
300
Cold winters, mild summers and rain throughout the year.
What is Moist-Cold climate?
300
What are the 5 themes of geography?
Location Place Movement Regions Human-Environment Interaction
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What are the Intermediate directions? List them:
Are directions that come between 2 cardinal directions. Northeast Northwest Southeast Southwest
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Is the study of the world’s people, communities and landscapes.
What is Human Geography?
400
What is a Desert?
Dry area of land with little or no rainfall.
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Vegetation= Plants with long roots like cacti to be able to store water.
What must the vegetation of the Dry climate be?
400
Say 3 examples the people affect the environment in.
Building dams Deforestation Planting Crops etc.......
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Title Scale Map Key Compass Rose
What are the elements of a map?
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The study of the weather and what causes it. ______ists study weather patterns in a particular area.
What is Meteorology?
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Wide relative flat area of land that has grasses and few trees.
What is a Prairie?
500
What is Precipitation?
Is snow, rain or hail formed by the condensation of moisture in the atmosphere that falls to the ground.
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What are freight ships?
Special designed ships for carrying goods across the ocean for long trips.
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Hoe many types of graphs are there? List them and explain one of them.
3 Line, Bar and Pie graph. any of them....
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