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Understandng Earth and Its Peoples
Technology Tools for Geographers
Careers in Geography
Physical/Human Geography
Five Themes of Geography
100
Geography
What is the study of people, places, and environments?
100
Database
What is a collection of information that can be analyzed?
100
Location Analyst
What is a person who studies an area to find the best location for a client called?
100
GIS
What is a computer-based mapping technology?
100
Location
What is either an exact position or a description of a place in relation to places around it?
200
Spatial
What is where a place is located and its physical relationship to other places, peoples, or environments?
200
Globe
What is a model of the Earth in the shape of a sphere?
200
Climatologist
What is a geographer who studies climates called?
200
Debris
What is the scattered remains of something broken or destroyed called?
200
Place
What describes physical characteristics such as mountains or rivers, as well as human characteristics such as the people who live there?
300
Environment
What is the physical surroundings of a location?
300
Map
What is a representation of a part of the Earth?
300
Urban Planner
What is a person called who creates plans for developing and improving parts of a city?
300
More densely
Are urban areas more or less densely populated than rural areas?
300
Regions
What have physical or human characteristics that unite them and make them different from or similar to other regions?
400
Absolute Location
What is the exact position of a place using latitude and longitude?
400
Cartographers
What is a person called who creates maps?
400
Geomorphology
What is the study of how the shape of the Earth changes?
400
Erosion
What is the wearing away and movement of weathered materials by water, wind, or ice?
400
Movement
What is how people, goods, and ideas move from one place to another?
500
Relative Location
What is the approximate position of a place, using landmarks?
500
Surveyor
What is a person called who measures the land?
500
Urban
What is the term that is synonymous for city?
500
Volcano
What is an opening in the Earth's crust from which molten rock, ash, and hot gases flow or are thrown out?
500
Human-Environment Interaction
What is how humans adapt to their environment?