Geography
This is the study of Earth, its people, places, and environments.
What is geography?
Earth has this many continents.
What is 7?
These are the four main directions shown on a compass rose.
What are North, South, East, and West?
These are the big ideas we use to help make connections between people, places, events, and ideas in Social Studies.
What are Connecting Themes?
Before learning what a new vocabulary word means, this is something you should do with the word aloud.
What is say/pronounce the word?
Geographers study these TWO main types of features on Earth.
What are physical features and human features?
This is the largest continent on Earth.
What is Asia?
On most maps, this direction is found at the top of the compass rose.
What is North?
This Connecting Theme focuses on where people, places, and things are located.
What is Location?
Put these three vocabulary words in the correct order: Consumption • Distribution • Production
What are Production → Distribution → Consumption?
Maps, GPS, satellites, and graphs are examples of these things geographers use to study the world.
What are geographic tools?
These are the names of all five oceans.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans?
This imaginary line is located at 0° latitude and divides Earth into two hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
A tradition changes over generations but keeps its original purpose. This theme examines both.
What is Time, Change, and Continuity?
Choose Scarcity OR Migration. Give its meaning in your own words and use it correctly in a sentence.
What is Scarcity/Migration? (Must correctly explain AND use it in a sentence.)
Mountains, rivers, and oceans belong to this type of geographic feature.
What are physical features?
This continent is located south of Europe, between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
What is Africa?
This silly phrase can help you remember the cardinal directions in order: North, East, South, West.
What is “Never Eat Soggy Waffles”?
A population grows while its available farmland stays the same.
What is Scarcity?
Break the vocabulary word “distribution” into its word parts. Identify the prefix, root, and suffix.
What are:
A geographer is studying why a large city developed near a river. They examine the land, water, transportation, and where people settled. This shows how geographers study the relationship between these two things.
What is Human-Environmental Interaction?
This continent is crossed by the Equator, is located mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, and is bordered by both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is South America?
You travel north, make a right turn, and then make another right turn. This is the direction you are now traveling.
What is south?
A country has enough food, but poor transportation prevents it from reaching many communities.
What is Production, Distribution, and Consumption?
Break down the vocabulary word distribution into its prefix, root, and suffix. Then give the meaning of EACH word part.