Geography
What is Geography the Study of?
The World
(Blank) is a flat drawing of all or part of the Earth, While (Blank) is a round 3-D model of the Earth. Fill in the missing blanks.
Map
Globe
A natural feature that can be used by humans to create things is called what?
natural resource
True or False, Climate and weather are the same thing
False
A perfect half of the globe is called what
a hemisphere
There are how many main branches of Geography and what are they?
2 Main Branches
Physical Geography and Human Geography
A map inside your mind is called what
mental maps
a nonrenewable resource that was form millions of years ago by ancient species is called what?
fossil fuels
What is climate?
a region's average weather conditions over a long period of times is what?
Lines that run East and West and never touch each other are called (Blank)
Lines that run North and South and touch each other at the pole are called (Blank)
Fill in the blanks
Latitude
Longitude
Explain what the 3 levels of looking at Earth are. (what do they study and what is there order from smallest to largest)
1) Local
2) Regional
3) Global
There are how many different main types of maps?
Name them
3 main types
Physical Map
Political Map
Thematic Map
Explain the difference between renewable and nonrenewable
Renewable you can keep using that source over and over again.
Nonrenewable is a one time use. Once you use it, you lose it.
There are how many different smaller climate zones
12 subdivisions
What is the most important line of latitude called?
What is the most important line of longitude called?
Equator
Prime Meridian
Name the other 3 branches of Geography we talked about in class
Cartography
Meteorology
Hydrology
There are how many different essential parts of a map?
Name them all
5 essential parts
Title, Key/Legend, Direction, Grid, Scale.
Provide at least 4 examples of natural resources
air, water, the sun, the soil, natural gas, plants, animals, minerals, etc.
(Blank, Blank) is causing the climate zones to change.
Fill in the missing blanks
Global Warming
North, South, East, and West are called the
(Blank, Blank) fill in the blanks
Cardinal Directions
What are the 5 themes of Geography?
Location
Place
Regions
Movement
Human Environment Interaction
distortion
List the 4 examples of renewable resources that we talked about in class.
Hydroelectric
Wind Power
Solar Power
Geothermal
There are how many main types of climate zones.
(Think big picture, the large zones)
5
Multiple lines of longitude are called (blank)
Fill in the blanks, (think of the plural form)
Parallels
Meridians