Why Study Geography
This subject helps us understand the earth.
What is geography?
This is a visual representation of Earth.
What is a map?
These images help geographers study cities, farms, and development from above.
What are aerial photographs?
The first step of geographic inquiry is doing this.
What is asking a question?
Studying geography helps us understand people from different __________.
What are cultures?
Geographers call this the "why of where."
What islLocation or places
People who make maps are called this.
Who are cartographers?
These images show Earth from space.
What is satellite imagery?
After asking a question, geographers do this.
What is gather information?
This natural disaster in Japan showed how one event can affect many countries.
What is a tsunami?
Studying geography helps develop this important thinking skill.
What is critical thinking?
This map projection is excellent for navigation but greatly distorts size.
What is the Mercator Projection?
This technology uses satellites to determine your location
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?
Before reaching conclusions, geographers must do this with information.
What is evaluate the information?
Geography teaches us that actions in one place can have effects on this.
What is the rest of the world?
Studying geography helps us become this type of citizen.
What is a global citizen?
This projection shows land closer to its true size but distorts shape.
What is the Gall-Peters Projection?
This computer system layers data on maps for analysis.
What is GIS (Geographic Information System)?
This is the final step of the inquiry process.
What is draw a conclusion?
Learning customs and traditions helps us understand these.
What are people and societies?
This question guides the entire course.
What is "How are we, as members of a global society, connected?"
This projection minimizes size distortion but makes measuring distances difficult.
What is the Interrupted (Goode Homolosine) Projection?
Besides maps, geographers also use these four sources of information.
What are graphs, charts, tables, and primary sources/interviews?
Geographic inquiry is based on asking these two kinds of questions.
What are "Why?" and "Where?"
Modern transportation allows people to travel around the world in this much shorter amount of time compared to the early 1900s.
What is hours instead of weeks?