The study of the world, its people and the landscapes they create.
What is Geography?
100
Geographers find using these ideas to organize and guide their studies very useful.
What are the Five Themes of Geography?
100
This branch of geography is the study of the world's physical features-its landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants.
What is physical geography?
100
A spherical model of the planet.
What is a globe?
100
This one of the five themes of geography examines how people deal with their surroundings.
What is human-environment interaction?
200
These people study places close-up, such as caves and mountains; study the earth using images taken from a distance, study lives of people in a certain place.
What is a Geographer
200
This theme looks at how and why people and things move.
What is Movement?
200
This second major branch of geography is the study of the world's people communities, and landscapes.
What is human geography?
200
A part.
What is element?
200
This would be the smallest level at which a geographer might study a place.
What is local level?
300
Because it deals with people and how they live, geography is sometimes called this.
What is a social science?
300
Geographers use this theme to determine that Mount Rainier is located in west-central Washington.
What is location?
300
If you've ever seen the weather report in television, you have seen the results of another branch of geography. This branch is the study of weather and what causes it.
What is meteorology?
300
The physical and human features that define an area and make it different from other places.
What is landscape?
300
Geographers have identified this number of essential elements so people can use them to organize and guide their study of geography.
What is six?
400
To a geographer, the human and physical features of a place make it unique.
What is a landscape
400
By studying this theme, geographers look at how people clear forests to plant crops, and look for ways to protect themselves.
What is human-environment and interaction
400
Without maps, geographers would not be able to study where things are in the world. Therefore this key field of geography, which involves the science of making maps would be very important to geographers.
What is cartography?
400
The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.
What is geography?
400
A geographer might use this term to express that The White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in the city of Washington, D.C.
What is absolute location?
500
Geographers look at the world at many levels. Sometimes they want to study a bigger chunk of the world. For example they may look at a part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguishes it from surrounding areas.
What is a regional level or what is a region?
500
The five themes of geography are not the only system geographers use to study the world. They also use a system of standards that identify the most important ideas in the study of geography.
What are the six essential elements of geography?
500
Geographers in this field study what causes droughts and floods and how people in cities get safe drinking water.
What is hydrology?
500
A part of the world that has one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas.
What is a region?
500
A geographer might use this term to describe a place by by its relation to another.