Terms
Organizing Geography
Who studies Geography?
How do we study Geography?
Extras
100

Geography is?

What is the study of the physical, cultural and biological features of the earth?

100
The _____ divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
100

Which group of people at school uses geography to read a map, or plan their route from class to class?

Students

100
Human Geography and Physical Geography
What are the 2 main branches of Geography?
100
A _____ map will give information on the distribution of people in a region.
What is a population map?
200

The Lines drawn on a map in a east-west direction.

What are lines of latitude?

200
The features and symbols of a map are described in the____.
What is the legend?
200
Another term for weather man/ woman.
What is a meteorologist?
200
Theme that covers how people and things change location and the effects of these changes.
What is Movement?
200
Exaggerates land masses at high altitudes.
What is a cylindrical map projection?
300

Profession of map making

What is the study of cartography?

300
The Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and ____ oceans make up the global ocean.
What is the Arctic?
300
Professions that use Geography
What are restaurant owners, politicians, farmers.
300
An airport
What is a functional region?
300
A collection of maps in a book
What is an atlas?
400
The elevation, layout and shape of the land.
What is topography?
400
compass rose
What is a directional indicator with arrows that point in all four directions?
400
Use computers to create maps
What is a cartographer?
400
Great Lakes
What is a formal region?
400
Flat Plane
What is the projection that shows true area sizes, but distorts shapes.
500

functional regions are?

What are different places that are linked together and function as one?

500
Another name for a population pyramid.
What is an age- structure diagram.
500

The Unites States Geological Survey hires many____.

What is a geographer?

500
The essential element that focuses on the study of earthquakes, volcanoes, and weather patterns.
What is physical systems?
500
Perceptual Region
What is an area that reflects human feelings and attitudes?
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