The Geographer's Tools
If you are using a round, 3-dimensional representation of the earth, you might be using this geography tool.
What is a GLOBE?
"It's 5 miles up the road, just two drives north of Bob's house" is an example of this type of location.
What is RELATIVE LOCATION?
This community of plants and animals depends upon one another, and their surroundings, for survival.
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
This theme asks "Where is it?," a question that can be answered using these two types of location.
What are absolute location and relative location?
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What is CARTOGRAPHY?
If you are using these imaginary lines that run North, South, East, and West, you are probably trying to find the absolute location of a place.
What are latitude and longitude?
The two hemispheres where Missouri is located.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
BONUS: What quadrant is Australia in?
What is Geography?
This theme of Geography studies how people, ideas, goods and service travel from one place to another.
What is MOVEMENT?
Then you might want to look into this field of Geography that involves studying the weather.
What is METEOROLOGY?
This series of satellites orbit more than 100 miles above the earth.
What is Landsat?
The latitude of the equator.
What is zero-degrees.
The theme of geography might include the physical features that set it apart as well as ways that humans interact with the environment.
What is PLACE?
Bonus: Why might a description of place change over time?
Rather than asking about location, this theme of Geography asks "What is it like?"
What is PLACE?
Bonus: What are 2 characteristics you might you use to describe a place?
Then you might want to look into this field that analyzes the human aspects of culture-population, language, ethnicity, religion, government, etc.
What is HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?
A technology that uses digital map information to create a databank; different “data layers” can be combined to produced specialized maps.
What are Geographic Information systems?
The Longitude of the Prime Meridian.
What is 0 degrees longitude?
Bonus: The Prime Meridian runs through which European Nations?
This field of geography studies the Earth's features and the geographic forces shaping them.
What is Physical Geography?
This Theme of Geography looks at the relationship between people and their environment?
You could improve your financial situation by getting paid to work in this field of geography that examines human economic activities and their relationship to the environment.
What is ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY?
This is a way of mapping the earth’s surface that reduces distortion caused by converting three dimensions into two dimensions.
What is a map projection?
"I think it's about 60 miles away" is an example of this type of distance.
What is Psychological Distance?
This type of map shows an area based not on topography or political boundaries, but on some other theme, like Gross Domestic Product or land use.
What is a Thematic Map?
This theme of geography groups similar places into these.
What are REGIONS?
Bonus: Name the three different types of Regions.
This prestigious field of Geography offers the chance to teach geography at all education levels, or the chance to serve as a consultant to business and government.
What is Geography Educator?