Vocabulary
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Geographer's World
Studying Geography
The Branches of Geography
100

Geography

What is the study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.

100

The study of its landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants.

What is physical geography?

100

A person to create a new part of a city.

What is a Urban Planner?

100

At this level, it is asked how do people in a town or community live?, how the local government works, and people live in the area get around and eat.

Local Level

100

Physical geographers want to know why various parts of the world have different ________ patterns.

What are weather patterns.

200

Landscapes

What is human and physical features that make it unique.

200

The study of the world's people, communities, and landscapes. The second major branch of geography.

What is Human Geography?

200

These people look at the world in many different ways.

What are geographers?

200

Study of people interacting around the world with others. Deciding how one event or idea in a region affects others in a different region.

What is the Global Level?

200

Two main branches of geography.

What is physical and human?

300

Social Science

What is a field that studies people and the relationships among them?

300

The study of the weather and what causes it.

What is meteorology?

300

World's highest mountains, part of the Himalayas, strong rivers from from the mountains to create lush valleys.

What is the city of Nepal?

300

A location that has common features and distinguish it from another area.

What is the Regional Level?

300

Better understand other cultures, improve landscapes, design cities and towns, protect environments.

What is the influence of human geography?

400

Regions

What is a part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas?

400

The study of water on Earth.

What is Hydrology?

400

The winner of this receives $85,000 in college scholarships.

What is the National Geographic Bee?

400

Examining how events and ideas from one region affect other regions.

How geographers study the world at the glocal level?

400

Eratosthenes is the __________ of ___________.

What is the Father of Geography?

500

Cartography

What is the science of making maps?

500

Engage in digs and study artifacts and features in a particular locations.

What is archaeologists?

500

These collect information that we cannot see from Earth's surface.

What are satellites?

500

People are important to geographers because...

What is they create landscapes?

500

Maps were hand drawn and not very accurate.

What are maps from the past?