What is Geography

What is Geography about?

• Rivers and Cities

• Volcanoes and the Weather

• Our Planet and Us.

• The Earth

Why is Geography important? It helps us to...

• keep our planet clean.

• understand our world.

• know how things were created.

• know about rocks.

What are the three strands of Geography? Tick the correct answers

• Human

• Physical

• Environmental

• Industrial

Physical geography is about

Human geography is about

Environmental geography is about

There are three big themes in geography. Can you remember them?

• Politics

• Change

• Impact

• Inequality

The theme change is all about.... tick the correct statements

• Our Earth is constantly changing. Rivers and volcanoes change the landscape over time.

• our Earth doesn't change and geographers study why this is the case.

• The Earth's population is constantly changing. Moving from one country to another, increasing and or decreasing in numbers.

• Why food prices change and how come things on the planet do not stay the same.

The theme impact links to change and how the changes the Earth and humans cause impact the both the world around us and the people too.

• True

• False

Write a short example of the theme impact.