Lesson 1
Study of the world, its people, and the landscapes
What is Geography?
Study of how people make and spend money
What is Economic Geography?
Miss Kraft's favorite colors
What is Summer?
Flat drawing that shows all or part of Earth's surface
What is a Map?
Imaginary line that divide the world into east and west halves
What is the Prime Meridian?
Field that studies people and the relationships among them
What is Social Science?
study of weather and what is causes
What is Meteorology?
how and why people and things move
What is Movement?
Spherical or ball shaped model of the entire planet
What is a Globe?
Imaginary line that circles the globe, halfway between the North and South poles
What is the Equator?
All human and physical features that make it unique
What is landscape?
science of making maps
What is Cartology?
Where something is
What is Location?
Gives exact location of a given object on our planet
What is GPS?
North and South lines, measure east and west of the prime meridian
Part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas
What is Regions?
Study of the world's physical geographic features
Features that make a site unique
What is Place?
Database that combines and provides information from many different source
What is GIS?
What is Latitude?
Miss Kraft's favorite drink
Study of the world's human geographic features
What is Human Geography?
How people interact with their environment
Miss Kraft's name changes next fall, to what?
What is Mrs. Frederick?
Different ways of showing our round planet on flat maps
What is Map-Projections?