The Study of Geography
What is geography the study of?
The world
Give an example of something you might see at a local level.
Answers will vary, but may include businesses, houses, schools, etc.
What is location?
Where a place is.
4200 208th St W, Farmington, MN 55024
This is an example of what theme?
Location
What is a region?
An area that shares characteristics.
True or False: Geography is a Science
True
The United States, Minnesota, etc.
What is region?
An area that shares 2 or more characteristics.
The Sahara desert is very hot and has lots of different animals.
This is an example of what theme?
Place
True or False: A region can be very big.
True-North America can be a region.
What 3 major topics do geographers study?
Landscapes, climate, and people.
The world, North America, etc.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
How humans adapt to and change the environment.
It gets very cold in the winters, so Canadian have very thick coats to put on when it gets cold.
This is an example of what theme?
Human-Environment Interaction
What do you need for absolute location?
An address or coordinates
What types of data and observations do geographers look at?
Weather, erosion, the age of an object, etc.
Which level of geography covers the largest area?
Global
What is place?
A description of what the place looks like.
London is a part of England as they all share the same government.
This is an example of what theme?
Region
Give an example of relative location.
Dodge Middle School is next to Bachman Middle School.
Why is geography called a social science?
Because sometimes they need to talk to people to understand a question instead of looking at numbers.
Why are there different levels of geography?
Because it is easier to study different questions if you break it up into a smaller group.
What is movement?
How people, ideas, and goods get around.
Many immigrants from Ireland moved to the United States a hundred years ago as they were losing crops.
This is an example of what theme?
Movement
Human geography deals with people, physical geography deals with physical features (desert, rainforest, etc.)