Chapter 1- What on Earth is Geography?

What is Geography?

• The area that has certain features.

• the study of our world and our place in it.

• a supply of food, fuel, shelter, and clothing.

• wearing away of land.

What is a region?

• an area that has certain features.

• the study of Earth and our place on it.

• a supply of food, fuel, shelter, and clothing.

• a wearing away of land.

What is the wearing away of land by wind, water, or ice?

• Geography

• Erosion

• Natural Resources

• Region

What includes all surroundings and conditions that affect living things?

• Geographers

• Region

• Environment

• Hemisphere

What are the three questions geographers ask about a place?

• Where is it?

• What is it like there?

• Why is it there?

• Who found it?

What is the main reason people study geography?

• They think the Earth is cool.

• They want to know how our environment and the land around us were formed.

• They want to know where they live.

• They want to know about history.

In the picture above, Earth is cut into which two hemispheres.

• North and South

• East and West

• North and West

• South and East

In the picture above, Earth is cut into which two hemispheres.

• North and South

• East and West

• North and West

• South and East

A hemisphere is ________________

• an ocean

• one half the Earth's surface

• a continent

• a country

The _________________ splits the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres

• Prime Meridian

• Equator