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Definitions
Themes of Geography
Branches of Geography
Tools of Geographers
Miscellaneous Geography
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This term means the study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.
What is geography?
100
This theme looks at how and why people and things move.
What is movement?
100
This branch is the study of weather and its causes.
What is meteorology?
100
This tool is a flat representation of Earth's features.
What is a map?
100

A geography tool that is made up of a group of databases.

What is Geographic Information System (GIS)

200
These are the five major ideas used to organize the study of geography.
What are themes?
200
This theme describes, in general terms, where something is.
What is location, or relative location?
200
This branch involves the study of water on Earth.
What is hydrology?
200

This spherical model of the Earth's entire surface makes it easier for geographers to see Earth as it really is.

What is a globe?

200
These are the three levels at which geographers can study the world.
What are local, regional, and global?
300
This term means a part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas
What is a region?
300

This theme describes features that make a site unique.

What is place?

300
This branch deals with the study of the world’s landforms, bodies of water, and other natural features.
What is physical geography?
300
Notebooks and recording devices would be useful tools to this type of geographer.
What is a human geographer?
300
Building bridges across rivers or homes with thick insulation are examples of this theme of geography.
What is human-environment interaction.
400
This term means the study of the world’s landforms, bodies of water, and other natural features.
What is physical geography?
400

This theme relates to areas that share common characteristics.

What is region?

400
The economics and politics of a region would be studied in this branch of geography.
What is human geography?
400
Showing the round Earth on flat maps will do this to some details of a map.
What is distort?
400

The distance in miles around the earth at the equator.

What is 24,901 miles? (or 25,000 miles)

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This term means the study of the world’s people, communities, and landscapes.
What is human geography?
500

This theme describes how people interact with and change the area around where they live.

What is human environment interaction?

500

The science of making maps.

What is cartography?

500

A map projection, used for 500 years, with a scale that is distorted; areas farther away from the Equator appear disproportionately large.

What is the Mercator Projection?

500
Having figured out how large the Earth is, among many other contributions in the field, this man is known as the "Father of Geography."
Who is Eratothenes?