What is Geography?
Famous Geographers
Wide open spaces
Rock the boat
Landlubber
100

This is the basic tool of geography

What is a map?

100

First writer to use the term geography

Who is Eratosthenes?

100

Every variation in the landscape

What are landforms?

100

A river and all of its tributaries

What is a river system?

100

Deep cracks in the earth's surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions

What are faults?

200

Two branches of geography

What are physical and human?

200

The proponent of the heliocentric theory

Who is Copernicus?

200

Wide areas of level land

What are plains?

200

The amount of water that flows from a river

What is discharge?

200
Known as the "supercontinent" 

What is Pangaea?

300

The art of mapmaking

What is cartography?

300

Famous Roman geographer who promoted the geocentric theory

Who is Ptolemy?

300

Wide areas of flat land that rise abruptly above surrounding land

What are plateaus?

300

The largest system of freshwater lakes in the world

What are the Great Lakes?

300

The breakdown of rocks by water, plant roots, and temperature changes

What is weathering?

400
Three parts of the earth

What is hydrosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere?

400

The first known ancient people to study the earth extensively

Who are the Greeks?

400

Spongy areas of land that look dry but are covered with wet organic materials

What are bogs?

400

Rivers that feed other Rivers

What are tributaries?

400

This is the most powerful form of erosion

What is running water?

500

This theme of geography is defined by human and physical characteristics

What is place?

500

Made it easier to locate places on a map by perfecting the grid

Who is Hipparchus?

500

Areas of visible standing water with vegetation that has its roots submerged in water

What are marshes?

500

Bodies of water fully enclosed by land

What are lakes?

500

Areas that are barren most of the year because of low amounts of precipitation

What are wastelands?