Geography of the World
The study of Earth's features.
What is geography?
This shows the landforms and bodies of water found in particular areas
What is a physical map?
A human-made object
What is an artifact?
Something written or created by a person who witnessed the event
What is a primary source?
A number with 1 followed by 100 zeros.
What is a googol?
What is a continent?
This shows the features that people have created like cities, states, etc.
What is a political map?
These are the two things that anthropologists study.
What are humans and human cultures?
Stories, customs, and songs passed down from generation to generation
What is oral history?
The only species of bird that can fly backwards.
What is a hummingbird?
The equal half of the globe
This was the Mayan city that waw an example of how interpretations of the past can change.
What is Cancuen?
Books, paintings, and media reports created by someone who was not present at the event
What is a secondary source?
This theme of geography asks, "What is it like?"
What is Place?
The typical weather conditions in a particular place over a period of time
What is climate?
The imaginary line that go around the Earth through the north and south poles.
What is longitude?
This is the type of digging done to find buried evidence.
What is an excavation?
An essay about the Stone Age written in 2026
What is a secondary source?
This is what you call a baby goat
What is a kid?
Location, Place, Region, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction
What are the themes of geography?
The ancient Greek geographer who wrote about making maps more accurate.
Who is Ptolemy?
This is the recovery and study of physical evidence from the past.
What is archaeology?
A letter from Abraham Lincoln to his wife when studying the Civil War
What is a primary source?
The most popular car color.
What is white?