Geography Basics
What is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments?
Geography
This ancient civilization created the earliest paper maps.
Ancient Greeks
In what year was the National Geographic Society founded?
1888
Geography helps us develop these skills for finding our way around.
Navigation skills
This geography career involves creating maps.
Cartographer
This type of geography studies Earth’s climate, soil, landforms, and oceans.
Physical Geography
This Greek was the first to draw a map of the known world.
Anaximander
In what year was the United States Geological Survey founded?
1879
Geography helps us make sense of people who have different traditions and ways of life.
Other cultures
This career protects and works in national parks and forests.
Park Ranger
This type of geography studies people and cultures across Earth’s surface.
Human Geography
This invention, created by the Chinese around 200–300 B.C., helped people navigate.
Compass
What name first appeared on a map of the Americas in 1507?
America
Geography can help improve this school skill involving books and text.
Reading
FEMA is associated with this geography-related career field.
Emergency Management
Geographers study Earth’s physical properties AND these groups spread across it.
Human societies
This Greek calculated the circumference of Earth around 240 B.C.
Eratosthenes
Who laid out the main principles of geography in 1650?
Bernhardus Varenius
Before traveling somewhere, you should understand these two types of geography.
Physical and human geography
This career uses Geographic Information Systems to study geographic data.
GIS Analyst
Name three things studied in physical geography.
seasons, climate, atmosphere, soil, streams, landforms, oceans
What was the name of Eratosthenes’ three-volume work?
Geographika
In 150, this mapmaker organized information about the world’s geography.
Ptolemy
Geography helps us understand how countries and people around the world depend on each other.
Global interdependence
Name three careers from the slides that involve the environment or conservation.
Examples: Environmental Consultant, Sustainability Consultant, Ecologist, Conservationist, Nature Conservation Officer