A Geographer's World Flashcards by John Biggs

The level of geography is why people live and work the way that they do.

Local

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Example of Local geography

Rec center

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The level of geography with one or more common features

regional

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Why do we have to do things so slow and detailed?

the world is huge
studying a large land area is hard
how people interact with each other

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The level of geography that is the world

Global

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Example of global geography

Imports and exports

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Which level of geography is about finding people globally and building relationships with people far away?

Global

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This branch of geography is the study of the world’s physical geographic features

Physical geography

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Examples of physical geography

landforms, climate, bodies of water, soil, plants

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This branch of geography is the study of the world’s human geographic features

Human geography

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Examples of human geography

Peoples, communities, landscapes

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This branch of geography is the study of maps and map making

Cartography

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This branch of geography is about the about the study of water on Earth

Hydrology

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This branch of geography is about the study of weather

Meteorology

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This theme of geography is about absolute location

Location

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Example of location:

Your address

General location =a name of a city

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This theme of geography is about the area’s landscapes and features that define the area and make it unique

Place

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Example of Place:

land, climate, people

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This theme of geography is about environment interactions

Human

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How people and their physcial environment effect other environments includes….

land, water, climate, plants, animals

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This theme of geography is where geographers want to know how and why people move, roads, and routes to travel

Movement

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This theme of geography likes to compare regions and why a place has developed as it has.

Regions

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What are the 6 essential elements of geography?

World in speical terms
Places and regions
Physical systems
Human systems
Environment and society
Uses of geography

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North and South imaginary lines

Longitude

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East and West imaginary lines

Latitude

Earth's land surface divided into 7 large land masses

Continents

7 contients

Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, Antartica, North America, South America

5 oceans

Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Artic, and Indian

represents the distance between points on a map

Map scale

shows what the subject of a map is

Map title

Directional indicator that shows which way North, South, East, and West is

Compass rose

A politcal boundary

border

explains what the symbol on a map represents

map legend

contains the symbols on the map and shows what they mean

map key

the equator and prime meredian divides the world in halves

hemisphere

north, east, south, west

cardinal directions

northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest

intermediate directions

passes through the mid Pacific Ocean and roughly follows at 100 degrees longitutde north and south line

International date line

imaginary line that divides the world in east/west halves

Prime meredian

A smaller map on the same page that zooms on only one part

inset map

How parallels measure distance from the equator

degrees

a ball shaped model of the world and it's continents

globe

a flat drawing that show all or a part of the world

map

This type of map projection is based on a cylinder wrapped around a globe

cydrical projections

This type of map projection is based on a cone over the globe

Comic projections

This type of map projection is based on a plane that's touching the globe

flat-plane projections

the study of the world

Geography

all the human physical features that make a place unique

landscape

A field that studies people and their relationships among them

social science

a technology system that transmits information from satellites to earth giving the exact location of a given object on our planet

global positioning system (GPS)

technolgoy system that combines and provides geographic information from many different sources

geographic information system (GIS)

a pattern of imaginary lines that circle the globe in east west and north south directions

grid

a line of latitude

parallels

imaginary line that circles the globe halway between the north and south poles

equator

a unit of measurement of a globe's surface that is part of a degree

minutes

a line of longitude

meredians

a method of showing our round planet on a flat map

map projections

represent the distance of points on a map

scale

shows where in the world the area on a map the area is located

locator map

This type of map shows the major political features of a region

Political map

This type of map shows the major physical features of a map.

Physical Map

This type of map focuses on one specific topic such as resources, climate, or population

Thematic Map

A Geographer's World Flashcards

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