Vocabulary
What is Geography?
A flat drawing that shows all or part of Earth's surface.
What is a map?
Areas that share common characteristics.
What are Regions?
The physical and human characteristics of these and how cultures and experience influence people's perceptions.
What are Places and Regions?
This theme is closely related to location.
What is PLACE?
A spherical shape model of the entire planet.
What is a Globe?
A specific description where something can be found.
What is Absolute Location?
This describes where something is and can be found.
What is location?
How to use this to interpret the past and apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.
What are the Uses of Geography?
These are more accurate because the other one can distort some details.
What are MAPS?
Satellites collect and transmit information of exact location of a given object or place.
A map, globe, or charts are examples of these.
What are Geographers' tools?
The features that make a site unique.
What is Place?
The process that shape the patterns of Earth's surface and the characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems.
What are the Physical Systems?
This information is what is gathered by satellites and used by geographers?
What are images?
A general description of where a place is.
Areas which share common characteristics.
What are regions?
Theme that looks how people and other things get around from place to place.
What is Movement?
HUman actions modify the physical environment and affect the human systems.
What is the Environment and Society?
This is a good tool to use for answering complex questions about geography?
What is GIS? Geographic Information System
Land, water, climate, plants, and animals in an area.
What is an environment?
Made up of a group of databases which combine and provides information from many different sources. People use this by asking questions.
What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
Mental maps to organize information, analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments.
What is The World in Spatial Terms?
Satellites can collect what type of information?
What is information that we cannot see?