Thinking Like a Geographer (Part I)
This is the study of the earth and its people.
What is GEOGRAPHY
Term used to describe 100 years.
What is CENTURY?
This is one time around the sun by a planet.
What is a REVOLUTION?
Number of planets in our solar system.
What is 8 (EIGHT)?
Happens when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun and the sun’s direct rays are hitting the Tropic of Cancer.
What is the SUMMER SOLSTICE?
Type of geography that studies the earth’s land, bodies of water, plant life, features, and natural resources.
What is PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY?
This Theme of Geography describes where something is located.
What is LOCATION?
This is the imaginary line that passes through the center of the earth from the North Pole to the South Pole; the earth rotates on this.
What is AXIS?
Happens when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun and the sun’s direct rays are hitting the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is the WINTER SOLSTICE?
The Earth, 7 other planets, thousands of smaller bodies, and the sun are found in this.
What is our SOLAR SYSTEM?
This Theme of Geography explains HOW and WHY people, ideas, and goods move from place to place.
What is MOVEMENT?
Type of geography that studies of groups of PEOPLE, religions, languages, and CULTURES.
What is HUMAN OR CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY?
The amount of degrees the earth tilted on its axis.
What is 23 1/2?
Happens when both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres receive the same amount of direct rays from the sun; happens twice a year.
What is the FALL/SPRING EQUINOX?
The 2 types of location.
What is RELATIVE and ABSOLUTE LOCATION?
This Theme of Geography describes how people affect their ENVIRONMENT and how the environment affects people.
What is HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION?
This Theme of Geography that defines areas that share several common characteristics.
What is REGION?
This is a planet's path around the sun.
What is ORBIT?
These happen because the earth is tilted on its axis.
What are SEASONS?
Name for the people who study the earth and its people.
Who are GEOGRAPHERS?
Name for the groups of satellites that use radio signals to determine the exact location of places on earth.
What is GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS)?
Term used to describe a period of 10 years.
What is DECADE?
Days it takes for the earth to make 1 (ONE) revolution around the sun.
What is 365 1/4?
These happen because the earth is rotating on its revolution around the sun.
What is DAY AND NIGHT?
Theme of Geography that describes characteristics that make a location unique.
What is PLACE?