Vocabulary
Map Skills
Themes of Geography
Geography
Misc.
100
Specific place on Earth.
What is Location?
100
Imaginary circles that run east and west on a map.
What is lines of latitude?
100
The study of the earths physical features.
What is physical geography?
100
They are 2 types of locations that geographers use as reference points.
What is absolute and relative location?
100
Geographers show their research findings on maps.
What is mapping?
200
Half of a sphere of a globe.
What is Hemisphere?
200
Imaginary circles that run north and south on a map.
What is longitude?
200
The exact spot at which a place is found on the globe.
What is absolute location?
200
They describe the physical and human features of the earth.
What is geographers?
200
Geographers interview people about how they think or feel about places.
What is interviewing?
300
Region defined by a common characteristic.
What is formal region?
300
The study of human activities.
What is Human Geography?
300
Area united by specific characteristics such as weather.
What is region?
300
Geographers study the earth and patterns of human activities by observing through photographs and satelitte images.
What is direct observation?
300
It divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
What is equator?
400
The study of weather and weather forcasting.
What is meteorology?
400
Zero degrees longitude is represented by this imaginary line which runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
Particular location with physical (a familiar building or landmark) and human (a local language) meaning.
What is place?
400
Geographers use statistical data to find patterns and relationships in their studies.
What is statistics?
400
The relationship between people and their physical environment (the HE in help)
What is human environment interaction?
500
Community of plants and animals that depend upon one another for survival.
What is Ecosystem?
500
The place where all longitudinal lines meet in the north.
What is the North Pole?
500
The exchange of people, products, and ideas
What is movement?
500
Geographers use scientific instruments such as satellite, high tech cameras and GIS to process and organize data.
What is technology?
500
Geographers study movement of people and how people change the earth to meet their needs.
What is 2 ways geographers study human systems?
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