Studying Geography
The study of the world, its people, and the landscape they create.
The two main branches of geography include.
What are physical and human geography.
Physical- land-forms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants
Human- people, communities
The five themes of geography.
What is location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.
The two most common tools used by Geographers.
What is a map and a globe.
Lines of latitude are east-west line; lines of longitude are north-south lines
To a geographer, a place's ___________ is all the human and physical features that make it unique.
What is a place's landscape.
What does the branch of hydrology study?
What is the study of water on earth.
The difference between absolute and relative location.
Absolute location is a specific location like an address or coordinates, relative location is the general description of a location, like Canada is north of America
3 Reasons geographers might make maps.
Show land use and cities
Provide information about population or language use or people activities
Describe elevation or climate
Where ancestors come from
Lines of longitude and latitude are measures in ___________, with 60 ____________ per _______________
The two characteristics that can define a region?
What is physical and human
ie. physical-mountain ranges, climates, plants
human- language, history, religion
What are cartography(the science of making maps), hydrology (the study of water on earth), meteorology(the study of weather and what causes it).
An area's ____________ includes its land, water, climate, plants, and animals.
What is environment
What do the abbreviations GPS and GIS stand for?
Global Positioning System
&
Geographic Information System
The three levels that geographers look at when they are studying a place?
What is the local level, the regional level, and the global level.
The reason human geographers often specialize in smaller area of study?
The following is not an Essential Element of Geography: The World in Spatial terms, Place and Region, Human System, Environment System,Physical System, The uses of Society
What is Environment system.
Correct Elements: he World in Spatial terms, Place and Region, Human System, Environment and Society,Physical System, The uses of Society
Besides maps, globes, and satellites, what are 3 other tools used by geographers?
Graphs, charts, phones, databases, models, notebooks, recorders
The five elements/features of a map
The important reasons for geographers to study people and places?
What is because places can affect where and how people live, and people can have an impact on their environment.
How do cartographers contribute to the work of others geographers?
What is they make maps that other geographers use to study different aspects of the world.
What are some common interactions between people and their environments?
What are agriculture, fishing, building a place to live, development, mining
How are satellites useful to geographers?
This type of map focuses on one special topic, like climate, or population