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Geography comes from the Greek words ____ and ____ which means _____ and ______.
geo means earth and graphein means to study or to write about.
What are the 5 themes of geography?
Movement, region, human environment interaction, location, and place
It is the length of time that an area is warm enough for crops to grow.
growing season
When certain kinds of weather repeat again and again in an area, they become a pattern. What do we call this pattern?
climate
When it is spring in the northern hemisphere, it is summer in the southern hemisphere. True or False?
false
What is geography?
It is the study of the earth and how people use it.
What are the four seasons of a year in a temperate region?
winter, spring, summer, and fall
What do we call a particular shape or form of the land?
landform
What do you call the kind of work that people do when they help other people?
service
It tells us how hot or cold the air is.
temperature
What do you call a part of the year that has a certain kind of weather?
season
Give three (3) examples of precipitation.
hail, snow, rain, sleet, drizzle
Give 5 examples of landforms.
canyon, coast, delta, mountain, peninsula, island, plain, plateau, valley
To know where something is on the earth is to know its ______.
location
When it is autum in the northern hemisphere, it is ______ in the southern hemisphere.
spring
Rain, snow, wind, heat, and cold are part of our _____.
weather
What do you call a region with little rainfall and few plants?
desert
When you see a product that has a label “Made in Thailand”, it means that it was ______ in Thailand.
manufactured
A weather pattern of little or no rain causes a dry ____. It also depends on two things such as _____ and ______.
climate
precipitation and temperature
To manufacture different products, we need _________ from our natural resources.
raw materials
What does geography help us to understand
The answers to the questions "what", "where", and "how" of the things around us, and how we truly understand the presence of it.
Plants that grown in an area without any human's touch is called ____________. It is influenced by three things such as ____, _____, and _____.
natural vegetation
temperature, precipitaion, soil
What do people and places have in common?
People and places depend on each other. THe environment does not determine what people in a certain place can do, and people are not able to completely change their environment.
What are natural resources? Give four (4) examples of natural resources.
It is something that is provided by nature and is useful to people. land, air, soil, water, forests, plants, minerals
Why it is difficult to imagine a place where no person has ever been?
It is difficult to imagine an unexplored place. No one will even know what can be seen in that particular place, and what are the things that are there if no one has every been in that place.