What is Geography?
What is Geography?
The study of places and the relationships between people and their environment
1) What people created the earliest paper maps?
2) What were they used for?
1) Ancient Greeks
2) Used for navigation and to depict certain areas of the earth
What helps us see the why, when and how of what happened in history?
Geography
What do Geographers do?
They explore both the physical properties of Earth's surface and the human societies spread across it.
What is the date of the oldest known map of the world?
500 B.C
All places and spaces have a history that has been shaped by:
Humans, Earth & Climate
The study of the distribution of networks of people and cultures on Earth's surface
Human Geography
Anaximander
What is not a theme of Geography: Location, Place, Latitude, Movement, Region, Human-Envirnment Interaction?
Latitude
Who Examines how human culture interacts with the natural environment and the way that locations and places can have an impact on people?
Geographers
What is a Cartographer?
a map maker! (can make maps from satellite data & imagery & computers in today's age!)
What helps with Navigation skills and spatial Awareness?
Geography
The study of Earth's Seasons, climate, atmosphere, soil, streams, landforms and oceans
When was the United States Geological Survey founded?
1879
A tool on a map showing cardinal (N,E,S,W) directions
Compass Rose