Chapter 1 Lesson 2
Name ______
Chapter 1 Lesson 2
Tools of Geography
WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY?
●Geography - ______
______
Why Study Geography?
•It ______of a place.
LANDFORMS
Examples: ______
______
______
The Five Themes of Geography
Location (______)
•______
• absolute vs. relative location
Place
•______
Human-Environment Interaction
•How the ______
–______
–______
Movement
•______
______
– relationship among places
–Spread of information and culture
Regions
•______
–a region has a unifying characteristic such as
–______
–______
–______
–______
Remembering the 5 themes
If you can’t remembering what they are just ask MR. HELP!!!
•M – Movement
•R – Regions
•HE – Human Environment interaction
•L – Location
•P - Place
Geography
●______.
●It looks at the major features of the earth's crust, including the ______, ______, and ______of the earth's various landforms of ______, ______, and ______.
●The study of geography focuses on two broad categories
–physical systems
–human systems.
Human systems
•processes ______
•that shape earth's surface and
•interact with plant and animal life to create, sustain, and modify ecosystems
Physical systems
•processes ______
•shape the earth's surface
•interact with plant and animal life to create, sustain, and modify ecosystems
Physical Processes
Among the physical processes studied:
Geographic Tools: Globes and Maps
The Globe
It is the best tool to use to:
–______between two locations.
–Understand ______
–______of landforms and bodies of water.
Axis
•______.
•Is tilted the same way and always points north and south.
Time Zones
•There are ______
•Each time zone is ______
•At any given time, it is an hour earlier in the time zone to the West of where you are now, and an hour later in the time zone to the East .
Representing the Earth: Maps
●Maps are ______.
●They are projections of our ______.
–For this reason, ______in shape, area, distance, and/or direction.
Map Grids
Latitude & Longitude
–______are measured in ______.
–Latitude & longitude are used to determine absolute location
- Absolute Location-______
- Relative Location-______
Latitude
–imaginary lines that ______
–measure distance ______
Longitude
–Imaginary lines that ______
–measure distance ______
Equator
–an imaginary line ______
Prime Meridian
–imaginary line that ______
Parts of a Map
•Compass Rose - ______
•Scale - ______
•Legend—key; ______
Types of Maps
•Reference Maps - ______
•Political Maps - ______, the location of major cities
•Physical Maps- maps used to primary ______like deserts, mountains and plains
•Thematic Map - ______, theme, or spatial distribution of an activity
•Map projections of the earth's surface are used to fulfill an intended purpose of the map and not to accurately represent the earth in every detail.
•all maps contain inaccuracies or distortions in shape, area, distance, and/or direction.