Geography Basics
(2 parts)
1. What is the first theme of geography?
2. What question does it answer?
1. Location
2. Where is it?
This is a community of plants and animals that depend on one another for survival.
Ecosystem
This field of geography studies human activities and their relationship to cultural and physical environments.
Human Geography
In addition to 8 planets and a sun, our solar system contains these spheres of ice and dust.
Comets
1. The imaginary line that encircles the globe, dividing the earth into northern & southern halves.
2. The imaginary line at zero longitude used to measure longitude east to west.
1. Equator
2. Prime Meridian
List and describe the 2 types of location we studied.
1. Absolute location: Location using coordinates like latitude and longitude
2. Relative location: Location relative to other things.
The name for one half of the earth.
Hemisphere
Bonus!: The name for the OTHER half of the earth?
This field of geography focuses on the earth's physical features.
Physical Geography
2 PARTS!
1. What are four inner planets commonly known as?
2. What are the four outer planets commonly known as?
1. The Terrestrial Planets
2. The Gas Giants
Name the 3 parts of the water cycle, and briefly describe each one.
1. Evaporation - Water goes from liquid to vapor and into the atmosphere.
2. Condensation - Water vapor gathers into larger and larger droplets, forming clouds.
3. Precipitation - Water falls from the clouds to the earth.
1. What is the 2nd theme of Geography,
2. What question does it answer?
1. Place
2. What is it like?
Bonus: Why might the description of a place change over time? Give an example
Name the 3 types of regions, and give an example of each.
1. Formal: example: The United States and Canada
2. Functional: example: Saint Louis and surrounding suburbs
3. Perceptual: example: The South
This branch of geography is concerned with the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere, especially as a means of forecasting weather.
Meteorology
This feature, not always shown on some solar system maps, separate the inner planets from the outer planets.
The Asteroid Belt
This occurs where a heavier ocean plate collides with and sinks under a continental plate.
A subduction zone
This theme of geography studies the interrelationship between people and their physical environment.
Human-Environment Interactions
This theme of Geography seeks to answer: How are places similiar?
The studying and making of maps.
Cartography
600 Points!!!
List and describe the 3 types of tectonic plate boundaries.
1. Convergent - Plates moving towards each other
2. Divergent - Plates moving apart
3. Transform - Plates moving sideways past each other
A fault in Southeast Missouri that shook over 7.0 on the Richter scale in the early 1800s
The New Madrid Fault.
This process breaks down rocks on the earth's surface into sediment.
Weathering
This theme of geography focuses on how people, products, and ideas travel from one place to another.
Movement
This field of Geography might offer the opportunity to be a consultant to business or government. But more often, it involves the teaching of geographic concepts at all levels of education. (you are experiencing it right now!)
Geography Education
BONUS!!! WORTH 800 POINTS!!!!!
Name the planets in the solar system, in order, starting with the one closest to the sun.
1. Mercury 2. Venus 3. Earth 4. Mars
5. Jupiter 6. Saturn 7. Uranus 8. Neptune
Why is earth capable of sustaining life?
How is it different from the other planets?
Give 3 examples.
1. It is in the "Goldilocks Zone" (Not too hot or cold, enough sun for photosynthesis but not so much that we fry)
2. The atmosphere that helps regulate our temperature, protect us from too much solar radiation, and has oxygen for us to breathe.
3. The presences of liquid water in large amounts
4. Soil
5. The right amount of gravity