Physical (natural) or Human Geography?
Themes of Geography
Slightly Techie Vocabulary
Vocabulary II: Maps
Video
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Geography is the study of ?

Earth's places and the people who live in them

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groups of places that have common characteristics. 


region

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Region

is an area with shared features.

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A picture on a map that shows directions such as east, west, south, and north.

 a compass rose

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This Island sits in the largest ocean on Earth. What was the name of the Island featured on the video?

Hawaii

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The Climate

Physical Geography or Human Geography?

physical geography

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The characteristics of a location.

place

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Location

tells where something is

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A visual representation of an area or Earth.


 map

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the first Hawaiians were ?

Polynesians

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The Amazon River

Physical Geography or Human Geography?

physical geography

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Explains how people and the environment interact with each other.

human environment interaction

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The study of the Earth


geography

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A spherical or ball shaped, model of the entire planet.

globe

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What disease did the foreigner spread when the arrived in Hawaii?


leprosy

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The Nature-worship of prehistoric peoples.

Physical Geography or Human Geography?

human geography

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explains how people, ideas, and animals move from one place to another.

movement

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Paleontology

is the study of ancient life

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This is the line that separates the eastern hemisphere from the western hemisphere. It is at 0 degrees longitude.

the prime meridian

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High in the volcanic uplands live a goose found nowhere else in the world. What is the name of that bird?

 Nene

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The diamond mines of South Africa.

Physical Geography or Human Geography?

Human Geography?

(The diamond deposits were put there by Nature, but the mines were made by people.)


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Can be measured absolutely or relatively 

Location

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Fossils help scientist learn what

What organisms looked like, where they live, and how they behaved.

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Ancient animal tracks are called

Footprints

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Most of them live in and around one city

 Honolulu

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