What is Geography?
5 Themes
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Biomes & Ecosystems
Hodge Podge
100

the study of where things are found on Earth’s surface and the reasons for the locations

What is geography?

100

these two types of locations can help you tell someone where a place is

What is absolute location and relative location?

100

These lines run from North to South on a globe

What are lines of longitude?

100

a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities

What is a biome?

100

The line that separates the northern and southern hemisphere

What is the equator?

200

scientific research by amateur scientists

What is citizen science?

200

This theme of geography explores the uniqueness of a particular location.

What is place?

200

This line of longitude helps determine the change of one calendar day to the next

What is the international dateline?

200

The three climate zones

What are the tropical, temperate, and polar zones?

200

The cardinal directions

What is North, South, East, and West?

300
analysis of data through satellite and other electronic information technologies

What is Geographic Information Science?

300

These two types of characteristics together provide keys to understanding human interaction with the environment.

What are physical and human characteristics?

300

These lines run east to west around the globe

What are lines of latitude?

300

The biome that Kentucky is located in

What is a temperate forest?

300

The two polar biomes

What is tundra and taiga?

400

to spread

What is diffuse?

400

This theme of geography focuses on the relationships between people in different places and people and the environment

What is movement?

400

Name the two latitude lines that encompass the area where the sun can be seen directly overhead

What is the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn?

400

the interaction between organisms living together in a particular environment

What is an ecosystem?

400

the study of weather

What is meteorology?

500

In geography we do these three things

What is analyze, collect, and share data?

500
A basic unit of geographic study, it is an area with unifying characteristics

What is a region?

500

This line of longitude is found at 0 degrees

What is the prime meridian?

500

the biome that receives the least amount of rain

What is a desert?

500

a symbolic representation of selected characteristics of a place, usually drawn on a flat surface

What is a map?