Social Studies Grade 7 Chapter 1

the study of earth an everything on it

• Location

• Region

• Geography

• Scale

an area fining the exact or relative point where a place is

• Geography

• Location

• Place

• Movement

an area with common features and characteristics that sets it apart from other areas

• region

• map

• globe

• compass rose

how the environment in influencing and influenced by people

• GPS

• hemisphere

• movement

• human-environment interaction

comparing natural and human made features of different areas that give it an identity or personality

• Projection

• symbols

• Place

• Geography

how people, goods, and ideas move around the world

• longitude

• Movement

• latitude

• elevation

model of the showing shape of lands, distances, and directions in relation to each other. A sphere that shows everything to scale, so landmasses are shown in correct size.

• Map

• latitude

• Globe

• scale

shows the same as a globe, but it is flat an has some distortions (loss of accuracy in the size, or position of an object

• Globe

• symbols

• scale

• Map

used by geographers to have someone else look at a place in detail. you can't see roads on these so that is why we use maps

• Photographs

• symbols

• scales

• directions

pictures taken of the Earth from in the air

• Satellite Images

• Photographs

• map

• Aerial Photographs