What Is Human Geography?
Human Geography is the study of people, places, and these things between them.
What are relationships?
This theme asks: WHERE is it?
What is Location?
This tool shows where things are located.
What is a map?
A map is a representation of this.
What is geographic information?
Information based mainly on numbers, measurements, and statistics.
What is quantitative information?
What is the big question geographers ask about why something is located somewhere.
What is “Why Here?”
This theme asks: WHAT IS IT LIKE?
What is Place?
This tool lets geographers combine layers of geographic information.
What is GIS?
A map is NOT the actual world. It is a ______ of the world.
What is a representation?
Information based mainly on words, observations, descriptions, and experiences.
What is qualitative information?
Human Geography focuses on people and the spaces they _____.
What is create?
This theme asks how people and the environment affect each other.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This tool collects information from a distance using satellites, aircraft, or drones.
What is remote sensing?
This type of map shows roads, rivers, cities, borders, and other features.
What is a general reference map?
Using different kinds of evidence to build a fuller explanation.
What is triangulation?
This branch of geography focuses on the natural world, such as mountains, rivers, and earthquakes.
What is Physical Geography?
This theme asks: WHAT MOVES?
What is Movement?
This tool asks people questions to collect information from many people.
What is a survey?
This type of map focuses on one topic, such as population or climate.
What is a thematic map?
A specific position on Earth is called this type of location.
What is absolute location?
Population, migration, culture, cities, and economics are examples of topics studied in this branch of geography.
What is Human Geography?
This theme asks: WHAT PLACES HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON?
What is Region?
This tool involves asking people about their experiences, opinions, or memories.What is an interview?
What is an interview?
When reading a map critically, you should ask who made it and why it was _____.
What is made?
Where a place is compared with other places is called this type of location.
What is relative location?