Human Geography
A study of human geography, involved with the relationships found between agriculture and humans.
What is Agricultural geography?
The study of glaciers and ice sheets, or more commonly the cryosphere, and phenomena that involve ice.
what is glaciology?
____________relates to geography as it teaches us about the world by showing sizes and shapes of countries, locations of features, and distances between places.
What is mapping?
A feature on a map which informs the reader about the size of various aspects on the map.
What is scale?
The amount of living organisms, that are the same species living in one geographical area at the same time.
What is Population Geography?
The study of the dynamic interface between the ocean and the land.
What is coastal Geography?
a map that shows the height and steepness of land using contour lines, and is useful for understanding elevation.
What is a topographic map?
_________ geography studies the 'spatial' parts of govenrmnets - types of boudnaires and voting districts, and divisions + possessions of countires in the world.
What is political geogrpahy?
________geography is critical becasue it explores the importance of people's basic economic behaviour: earning money, getting a job, making more money, svaing, retiring, investing.
What is economic geography?
The methods and technologies used to collect data, distribute, store, analyze, process, and present geographic data.
What is Geomatics?
A way to measure your position on Earth in a North to South direction.
What is latitude?
The name of the squirrel that "caused" continetal drift.
Who is Scrat?
Defined as traditions and beliefs of a particular group of people. Also the study on how the physical environment interrelates with strategies of life and traditions of people.
What is cultural geography?
Mostly concerned with the amounts and quality of water moving and accumulating on the land surface, in soil & rocks near the surface.
What is hydrology?
A way to measure your position on Earth in an East to West direction.
What is longitude?
hot flowing rock that floats on Earth’s mantle. They move slowly, but their motion has a huge impact on our planet.
What are Plate tectonics?
The physical and social environments found in places surrounded with people, businesses, and buildings.
What is Urban geogrpahy?
Examines the preserved material in the stratigraphic record to determine the distribution of the continents through geologic time.
What is Palaeogeography?
________ refers to the way something is spatially allocated or spread out on a map.
What is distribution?
Concerned with understanding the surface of Earth and the process by which it is shaped, both at the present as well as the past.
What is Geomorphology?