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Critical Thinking
Skills for Life
100
The study of the earth.
What is geography
100
Which pair of basic questions guides geographer in their work
What is where are things located and why are they there
100
Latitude and longitude lines help geographers identify this
What is absolute location
100
The basic parts most maps have
What is title, scale, compass rose, key, grid
100
To see if a source is reliable you can ask this type of question
What is the the source, is it recent enough, is it accurate, is the author qualified or biased
200
Geographers use east-west circles, or lines of what to describe location.
What is latitude
200
Where would you look to find out how distances on a map compare to the actual distance on land
What is the scale bar
200
In order to learn more about Earth, geographers organize information according to what themes
What is Movement, Region, Location, Interaction, Place
200
Contrast how a description of your hometown as a place would be different from a description of your hometown's location
What is the human and physical features rather than the cardinal and intermediate directions (lat and long)
200
This is what you should find out about the source of information when verifying information from a printed source
What is the author and date of publication and the name of the source
300
North, south, east, and west are each a(n)
What is cardinal direction
300
Through their study of earth, geographers learn how Earth and its people affect what?
What is each other
300
An explanation as to why there are always distortions in a map
What is maps are flat and the earth is round
300
Explain how latitude and longitude are similar and different
What is both are measurements of Earth to describe location and both are measured in degrees. Latitude is distance north or south of the equator and longitude is distance east or west of the Prime Meridian
300
The two things you should look for whenever you get information from Internet sites
What is the date and author
400
A line of longitude
What is a meridian
400
The most accurate way to show Earth's continents and bodies of water is with a(n)
What is a globe
400
This id what geographers learn by studying the theme of human-environment interaction
What is how people and the environment affect each other
400
Predict how a geographer might use the theme of movement to describe the area where you live
What is the ability to explain how people, goods, and ideas came to the area
400
This is what you do to deal with sources that do not agree
What is note the disagreement in your writing
500
A representation of Earth's rounded surface on a flat surface is called a(n)
What is projection
500
Distortion in a map may change the shape of this item
What is some land masses
500
This explains how geographers use the theme of regions to organize information about the earth
What is comparisons between areas that share similarities such a s climate and land
500
List of some advantages and disadvantages of using only a map or only a globe to present information about Earth
What is that a globe is round, like Earth, and shows continents and oceans as they appear, although to scale. However, not convenient or always useful. Whereas maps are convenient but my distort distance, direction or shape.
500
What you do to find out if an author is qualified, or if an author has a bias
What is to verify the author's qualifications and methods to be able to ask yourself if the author has a bias
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