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Key Terms
Tools
Branches
Themes
General
100
The study of the world, its people, and their landscapes
What is geography?
100
The simplest and sometimes best tools of a geographer
What is a notebook and tape recorder?
100
The study of weather patterns to predict weather and terrible storms
What is meteorology?
100
The study of roads and travel routes
What is movement?
100
The largest continent on earth
What is Asia?
200
The human and physical features that make a place unique
What is landscape?
200
Shows the earth as it truly appears
What is a globe?
200
The study of river systems and rainfall patterns
What is hydrology?
200
Examples of this theme are farming and using sandbags during flooding
What is human-environment interaction?
200
The global address of any point on earth given in latitude and longitude
What is absolute location?
300
Part of the world with one or more common features that distinguish it from other areas
What is region?
300
Distorts some details because it is a flat drawing of a spherical object
What is a map?
300
The science of making maps
What is cartography?
300
This theme describes where something is found
What is location?
300
The four oceans of the world
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Indian Oceans?
400
The land, water, climate, plants, and animals of a place
What is environment?
400
Information obtained from these helps geographers make more accurate maps
What is a satellite image?
400
The study of landforms and climate patterns
What is physical geography?
400
Examples of this theme are the Statue of Liberty, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Great Wall of China, and the Sphinx
What is place?
400
The seven continents of the world
What are North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Europe, Asia, and Antarctica?
500
A field that studies people and the relationships among them
What is social science?
500
This is used when geographers want to study information or compare numbers
What is a chart or graph?
500
The study of the world's people and communities
What is human geography?
500
The essential element that doesn't correspond to any of the five themes
What is Uses of Geography?
500
The two types of satellite images geographers use
What are infared and true color satellite images?