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Studying Geography
Geography Vocab l
Geography Vocab ll
Branches of Geography
Everything
100

Studying different branches of geography can help us understand the world and everyone in it a little better.

What is true?

100

to be near a coast or a body of water.

What is coastal?

100

the study of people, their communities, and how they interact with each other.

What is human geography?

100
the two main branches of geography
What is physical and human geography?
100

Human geographers study two main areas

What is people and climate?

200
Studying Geography at a town or community level
What is local geography?
200
high level of water vapor in the atmosphere.

What is humid?

200

measurement of distance north and south of the Earth's equator.

What is latitude?

200

this area of geography helps us understand people we interact with

What is human geography?

200
The theme that looks at how and why people and things move.
What is movement?
300
A part of the world that has one or more common features
What is region?
300

degree of hotness and coldness measured on a scale.

What is temperature?

300

Takes Earth 365 days to go around the Sun.

What is a revolution?

300
The study of weather and what causes it.
What is meteorology?
300
Maps and globes are similar and different. Explain how.
What is (answer to discretion of teacher)
400

Talks about how human interact with their environment.

What is Human-Environment Interaction?

400
It takes 24 hours for the Earth to make this happen.

What is rotation?

400

The study of Earth's features and characteristics like bodies of water and big areas of land (mountains, valleys, etc).

What is physical geography?

400
Contribute to the work of other geographers by making maps that other geographers use to study different parts of the world.
What is cartographers?
400
two specialized fields of geography
What is cartography and meteorology?
500

Talks about what the area is like? (i.e. the temperature, weather, culture, etc)

What is Place?

500
Energy that comes from the sun.

What is solar energy?

500

The study of making maps.

What is cartography?

500
To learn how the physical world works and to help us prepare and adapt to changes
What is the reason we study physical geography?
500
human and physical geography are different and alike
What is (teacher discretion)