How do Geographers think?
Geographers and their Tools
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The study of the Earth's surface.

What is "Geography"?

100

The main tools geographers use

What are Maps and Globes

100

How people treat the earth.

What is Human Environment Interaction?

100

Relative and absolute

What is location?

100

How many states are in the United States?

What is "50"?

200

Half of a sphere; half of the Earth.

What is "Hemisphere"?

200

One of the disadvantages is that it distorts the view of the Earth

What is a "MAP"?

200

Cars are doing it right now heading to work (what 5 themes)

What is Movement?

200

building houses and destroying forests

What is human environment interaction?

200

How many continents are in the world?

7 Continents

300

Tool on a map that shows cardinal directions and intermediate directions is called

What is "compass rose"?

300

The features on a map that explain symbols, colors, and lines on a map

What is the "Map key"?

300

The land or Landmarks.

What is Region?

300

Southeast

What is region?

300

Name the Oceans

What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Southern/Antarctic?

400

The invisible lines that run east-west and north-south to form an imaginary grid over the planet earth which are used for finding locations are called

What are"Latitude and Longitude Lines"?

400

The features of a map that shows direction

what is "compass rose"?

400

A list of the five themes of geography

What are location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions?

400

Traveling from one place to another

What is movement?

400

Your house address is an example of _________ location.

What is absolute?

500

0° degrees longitude line is called the

What is the "Prime Meridian"

500

The 24-satellite navigation system that uses multiple satellite signals to find a receiver's position on earth.

What is "GPS" or " Global Positioning System"

500

Describes the physical and human characteristic of a location

What is Place?

500

Landmark like East Grand Lake

What is Place

500

People, goods, and _______ are examples of movement.

What are ideas?