Terms/Vocab
What is Geography?
The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create
What is an example of Geography at a local level?
How people live in a town, how they get around, what people eat
What is an example of the theme of movement?
Migration, trade, roads, moving to another place
What is the purpose of a Global positioning system?(GPS)
Using satellites to find the exact location of a place
What is Human Geography?
The study of people, communities, and the landscapes they create
The study of the regional level of geography involves what?
How the world is divided
Characteristics of a certain region
How would you describe a region AND give an example
How the world is divided up
Midwest
What is the purpose of the Geographic Information System? (GIS)
What is the direction of latitude?
East and West
What is Physical Geography?
The study of landforms, bodies of water, climate, soils, and plants
How do geographers study people at a global level?
Relationships of people that live far apart
Trading
What is Location?
A description of where a point on Earth is
What is the purpose of a Legend on a map?
It is the key to what the map is about
What is the direction of longitude?
North and South
What is absolute location?
How do geographers study people as a SOCIAL SCIENCE?
language, culture, government, etc.
Why does place differ from location?
people, culture, land
What is the purpose of scale on a map?
To see the distance between TWO points
What is another name for longitude?
Meridians
What is a landscape?
All the human and physical features that make it unique
How do geographers study geography as a SCIENCE
What causes things to form, data, information
What is Human Environment Interaction? AND give an example
How people and their physical environment effect each other.
Example cutting down trees to build something
What is the purpose of a cylindrical projection?
Touches the globe only at the equator
SHOWS true direction and shape
Distorts land
Prime Meridian and Equator