Unit 1-Think Like a Geographer

Some societies use recipes using food products that are available locally within their region. This type of tradition contributes to the culture of a region by...

• encouraging strict religious guidelines

• passing customs on to the next generation

• providing alternative types of medicines

• creating routines for survival in winter months

Which geographic factors has the greatest influence on where people live?

• water

• mountains

• rocks

• snow

What do you use to find absolute location?

• South and Oceans

• Larry and Lolly

• east and north

• Latitude and Longitude

Which question is a geographer likely able to answer from reading a map regarding the location of interstate highways?

• How tall it is?

• Why is it there?

• When was it constructed?

• What effects does it have on the environment?

What is longitude?

• Shows governmental boundaries of countries, states, and counties, the location of major cities, and they usually include significant bodies of water.

• Equal halves of a sphere.

• How far a place is on Earth from the Prime Meridian, measured in degrees. It is measured with the help of imaginary lines that run North to South.

• How far a place on Earth is from the equator, measured in degrees. It is measured with imaginary lines around the Earth that run East to West.

What are the coordinates for the city Kazan?

• 65N and 70E

• 50N and 50 E

• 75N and 75E

• 45N and 120E

What is Geography?

• The study of our physical surroundings and how humans interact with them.

• Natural Resources that can replaced.

• Grouping places by their similar characteristic such as language, area, politics, religion, etc.

• North

What is hemisphere?

• Tells where thing are; can be absolute or relative.

• Equal halves of a sphere.

• Imaginary line that runs North and South on the globe that divides the Earth into the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. 0 Degrees Longitude.

• Shows governmental boundaries of countries, states, and counties, the location of major cities, and they usually include significant bodies of water.

What is latitude?

• How far a place on Earth is from the equator, measured in degrees. It is measured with imaginary lines around the Earth that run East to West.

• The use of cardinal directions to find the general location of a place.

• The different shapes and types of land on Earth.

• North

What is a region?

• A scale to help to measure distance on a map that represents distance on the Earth.

• The different shapes and types of land on Earth.

• Grouping places by their similar characteristic such as language, area, politics, religion, etc.

• Imaginary line that runs North and South on the globe that divides the Earth into the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. 0 Degrees Longitude.