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Question 1

Is the study of everything on earth, from rocks and rainfall to people and places.

Answer 1

geography

Question 2

People who study geography.

Answer 2

geographers

Question 3

What three things do geographers study?

Answer 3

1.how the environment influences people.
2.how peoples activities affect earth.
3. How the world is changing.

Question 4

What do geographers look at to gather information?

Answer 4

Cities, cultures plants, and resources.

Question 5

The way a person looks at something.

Answer 5

Perspective

Question 6

Is where geographers look at where things are or where related events happen.

Answer 6

Spacial perspective

Question 7

Scenery of a place, including its physical, human, and cultural features.

Answer 7

landscape

Question 8

Study where people live and work as well as their ways of life.

Answer 8

human Geography

Question 9

Focuses on earths natural environments. Earths landforms, water features, atmosphere, animals, plants, soils, and the places that affects them.

Answer 9

physical geography

Question 10

study of maps and map making

Answer 10

cartography

Question 11

How have computers helped map making?

Answer 11

computers changed mapmaking in recent years because scientist use to have to use all of these calculations just to get maybe the longitude and latitude. but with computers in recent years, scientist can have more exact maps and do less work and calculations for maps.

Question 12

study of weather

Answer 12

meteorology

Question 12

study of weather

Answer 12

meteorology

Question 12

study of weather

Answer 12

meteorology

Question 12

study of weather

Answer 12

meteorology

Question 13

study of weather

Answer 13

meteorology

Question 13

study of weather

Answer 13

meteorology

Question 13

study of weather

Answer 13

meteorology

Question 14

Why are meteorologist important?

Answer 14

For cast how the weather will develop so that people know what to expect.

Question 15

The largest employer of cartographers is the _?

Answer 15

United States Geological Survey

Question 16

How do businesses use geographers?

Answer 16

Geographers decide locations and shipping routes for business.

Question 17

How are regions defined?

Answer 17

Regions are defined by their physical and human features.

Question 18

Features include climate, river systems, soils, and vegetation.

Answer 18

physical

Question 19

Features include the languages, religions, and trade networks of an area.

Answer 19

human

Question 20

Three types of regions.

Answer 20

1. Formal region 2. Functional region 3. Perceptual region

Question 21

A _ region has one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas.

Answer 21

functional

Question 22

Are made up of different places that are linked together and function as a unit

Answer 22

functional regions

Question 23

_ regions are regions that reflect human feelings and attitudes.

Answer 23

perceptual

Question 24

Calculated using latitude and longitude.

Answer 24

absolute location

Question 25

Location of a place in relation to other places.

Answer 25

relative location

Question 26

Lines of _ measure distance north and south of the equator.

Answer 26

latitude

Question 27

The _ is an imaginary line that circles the glove halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.

Answer 27

equator

Question 28

How many hemispheres is the earth divided into?

Answer 28

4

Question 29

_ measure distance east and west of the prime meridian.

Answer 29

longitude

Question 30

The _ is the imaginary line drawn from the North Pole through Greenwich, England to the South Pole.

Answer 30

prime meridian