Introduction to Geography
The study of the earth.
What is Geography?
Pictures of the earth's surface are also called...
North, South, East, West
What are cardinal directions?
Imaginary lines that run from east to west across the earth, forming parallel lines.
What are latitude lines?
Two types of Geography
What are Physical and Human Geography?
Focuses on city, state, and national borders.
What is a political map?
Weather patterns over long periods of time.
What is climate?
0 degrees latitude. The hottest place on earth.
What is the equator?
Name the 7 continents.
Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Europe, North America, and South America
This type of Geography has to do with natural features of the earth.
What is Physical Geography?
Shows physical features such as mountains, rivers, and lakes.
What is a physical map?
A climate zone that is hot all year long. There are two seasons: wet and dry.
What is a tropical climate?
Half of the earth, divided by the equator or the prime meridian.
What are hemispheres?
The exact location of a place.
Absolute location
Examples include culture, population, religion, and language.
What is Human Geography?
A map that showed favorite foods in each state in the United States is an example of this.
What is a thematic map?
Describe a temperate climate. Give 3 facts.
Example: Ohio
Located inbetween the poles and the equator, or the middle latitudes.
Has 4 distinct seasons.
The main line of longitude, runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the prime meridian? or
What is the international date line?
Describe the relative location of Fairview German Language School.
Across the Street from Clifton Area Neighborhood School and the CRC. Near the Zoo. Near Ludlow Ave. In the gaslight district. etc.
Give 3 examples EACH of Physical and Human Geography in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Answers vary.
Physical: Mt. Adams, Ohio River, Mt. Washington, etc
Human: Speaking English, Celebrate Christmas, German heritage
Describe how a political, thematic, and physical map of the same geographic area could be used differently.
Answers vary.
Describe the reason the weather in a highland climate varies so much.
Because a highland climate is located in mountainous regions, the weather patterns aren't the same as they are closer to the earth. The air is thinner because it has less oxygen in it, and the location can even be above the clouds. The weather is often colder than that at lower levels.
Two latitude lines that form the tropical borders around the earth.
What are the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn?
City located at 40 degrees N, 83 degrees W
What is Columbus, Ohio?