What is Geography?
The study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.
Geography
I’m blue on maps and cover most of Earth.
The ocean
The largest continent on Earth.
Asia
A raised area of land with a pointed or rounded top.
A mountain
The imaginary line that divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
The equator
The two main branches of geography.
Physical geography and human geography
I can be tall like a tower, or flat like a pancake. I’m made of rock.
A landform
The ocean that borders Australia to the east.
The Pacific Ocean
A landscape shaped by waves, tides, and wind.
A coastal landscape
The direction the sun rises.
East
A question geographers ask to understand why things are where they are.
Spatial distribution
I move without legs, roar without a mouth, and shape the land.
Wind
The only continent that is also a country.
Australia
A landform created by a river cutting through rock over time.
A valley or canyon
The biome that covers most of central Australia.
Desert
The term for how people depend on, adapt to, and change the environment.
Human–environment interaction
I fall from the sky, fill rivers, and help plants grow.
Rain
The two continents entirely in the Southern Hemisphere.
Australia and Antarctica
The process that moves broken rock from one place to another.
Erosion
The term for the average weather conditions over a long period.
Climate
What are 5 things all maps must have? (100 points each)
BOLTSS
I’m a place where water, land, plants, animals, and climate all interact.
An ecosystem
The ocean that is the deepest and contains the Mariana Trench.
The Pacific Ocean
The type of landscape created by the movement of tectonic plates, forming features such as mountains, volcanoes, and rift valleys.
A tectonic landscape
The natural event caused by tectonic plates suddenly shifting.
An earthquake