Geographer's World

What is geography?

• the study of ancient civilizations

• the study of Earth and its people, places, and environments.

• the study of artifacts and fossils

• the study of reading and creating maps

What is Absolute location?

• the location of one place compared to another place

• the location next to another place

• an exact location of something

• is relatively close to another place

latitude

• the lines on a map that run east to west

• the lines on a map that run north to south

• lines that connect on a globe

• lines that intersect on a map

What is relative location?

• an exact location of something

• GPS coordinates

• the location of one place compared to another place

• a location a relative would use

spatial

• Earth's people and heritage

• The study of space

• an exact location of something

• Earth's features in terms of their places, shapes, and relationships to one another.

What is an environment?

• man made buildings

• the natural surroundings of a place

• material that can be used to produce crops

• average weather graphed

What is landscape?

• the portions of Earth's surface that can be viewed at one time from another location.

• a business that takes care of lawn maintenance

• material that can be used to produce crops

• a map that shows specialized information

Equator

• a line of longitude that runs around the middle of the Earth

• a line of latitude that runs north and south

• a line of latitude that runs around the middle of the Earth

• a line of latitude that runs through the Prime Meridian

The Prime Meridian

• runs through Greenwich Connecticut

• lines that run east to west measuring north and south hemispheres

• a line that runs around the middle of the world

• the starting point for measuring longitude

What is a resource?

• a group of places that are close together

• Earth's features in terms of their places and shapes

• a relationship between distance and on the map and on earth

• a material that can be used to produce crops or other products