Physical (natural) or Human Geography?
Population of China
Physical Geography or Human Geography?
What is human geography?
The summation of the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere where life is found
What is the Biosphere?
Used to measure temperature, latitude, and longitude
Degrees
A picture on a map that shows directions such as east, west, south, and north.
What is a compass rose
Which is the SECOND largest continent?
Africa
Climate
Physical Geography or Human Geography?
What is physical geography?
an elevated landform like a mountain but is rounded instead of peaked.
What is a hill?
0 degrees latitude line is called....
Equator
A visual representation of an area or Earth.
What is a map
What are the biggest bodies of water called?
Oceans
The Amazon River
Physical Geography or Human Geography?
What is physical geography?
A chain of islands close to each other ________.
What is an archipelago?
The study of the Earth
What is geography
A spherical or ball shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is globe
What are the biggest landforms called?
Continents
The Nature-worship of prehistoric peoples.
Physical Geography or Human Geography?
What is human geography?
Central and South America are connected by this narrow landform in Panama that is great for building canals.
What is an Isthmus?
This serves as the base level for measuring elevation and depth on Earth (even though it is NOT the same level all around the planet).
What is sea level?
This is the line that separates the eastern hemisphere from the western hemisphere. It is at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian
What is the name for a person who makes maps?
What is a Cartographer?
The diamond mines of South Africa.
Physical Geography or Human Geography?
What is Human Geography?
(The diamond deposits were put there by Nature, but the mines were made by people.)
Can be measured absolutely or relatively
What is Location?
A system that uses a network of earth orbiting satellites to pinpoint absolute locations.
What is global positioning system (GPS)
What is another name for a map key?
Legend
Most of us think of it as round, but it would be more accurate to call it a "bumpy spheroid" that is tilted at 23.5 degrees.
What is the Earth?