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Point of view based on a person's experience and personal understanding.
What is perspective?
100
The art and science of mapmaking.
What is cartography?
100
The exact spot on Earth where something is found, often stated in latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
100
Physical systems such as earthquakes, mountains, rivers, volcanoes, weather patterns.
What are systems that shape the Earth's surface.
100
This is used to track Earth's larger atmospheric systems.
What is meteorology?
200
Point of view based on looking at where something is and why it is there.
What is spatial perspective?
200
An area that contains a city.
What is urban?
200
Relationship between people and the environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
200
Maps and other geographic tools.
What is how geographers study the world?
200
This is important to learn how a landscape developed and how it might change.
What is the study of physical geography?
300
The field of tracking Earth's larger atmospheric systems over longer periods of time.
What is climatology?
300
The study of Earth's natural landscape and physical systems, including the atmosphere.
What is physical geography?
300
The position of a place in relation to another place.
What is relative location?
300
Through their activities, movements, settlements, and modifications.
What is how humans shape the world in which they live?
300
This is where most hurricanes develop.
What is above the warm atlantic waters of the coast of Africa.
400
The field of forecasting and reporting rainfall, temperatures, and other atmospheric conditions.
What is meteorology?
400
An area of open land that is often used for farming.
What is rural?
400
The movement of ideas or behaviors from one cultural region to another.
What is diffusion?
400
This provides clues to the past and helps geographers plan for the future.
What are benefits studying geography proves?
400
Hurricanes are called this when they form above the Pacific Ocean.
What are typhoons?
500
The study of the earth's physical and cultural features.
What is geography?
500
The study of people, past or present.
What is human geography?
500
Area of Earth's surface with one or more shared characteristics.
What is region?
500
The study of people, their location and distribution, their activities and their differences.
What are topics included in the study of human geography?
500
The presence of oak tree remains in a layer of permafrost indicate this about past temperatures in a region near the North Pole.
What is that long ago the region was warmer.