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Vocabulary
The 5 Themes and 6 Elements
Map Skills
Geography
Misc
100
A specific place on earth.
What is location?
100
The list of 18 basic ideas that are central to the study of geography.
What are the National Geographic Standards?
100
A flat representation of the earth or region.
What is a map?
100
They are 2 types of locations that geographers use as reference points.
What is absolute and relative location?
100
The relationship between people and their physical environment.
What is human environment interaction?
200
Half of a sphere on a globe.
What is hemisphere?
200
Exact spot where something is found on a globe.
What is absolute location?
200
An ariel photograph of the earth.
What is is a satellite?
200
They describe the physical and human features of the earth.
What is a geographer?
200
Location, Place, Regions, Movement, and Human Environment Interaction.
What are the five themes of geography?
300
The study of weather and weather forecasting.
What is meteorology?
300
An area united by specific characteristics such as weather
What is region?
300
A person who creates a map.
What is a cartographer?
300
Geographers use scientific instruments such as satellite, and high tech cameras to process and organize data.
What are geographers tools?
300
The study of water.
What is hydrology?
400
The field that studies people and the relationships among them.
What is social science?
400
Particular location with physical (a familiar building or landmark) and human (a local language) meaning.
What is place?
400
THe physical and human feature that define an area and make it different from other places.
What is landscape?
400
The study of the world's people, communities, and landscapes.
What is human geography?
400
The study of the world, its people, and the landscape they create.
What is geography?
500
An area's land, water, climate, plants and animals is___
What is environment?
500
The exchange of people, products, and ideas.
What is movement?
500
The study of the world's physical features-its landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants.
What is the physical geography?
500
The world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, uses of geography.
What are the six essential elements of geography?
500
Geographers gather and study data, they also study people and how they live.
What is how is geography both a science and social science?