Chapter 1 Section1 NG 5th

Which region is also an entire continent?

• Russia and the Eurasian Republics

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• South Asia

• South America

What are geographic patterns?

• key ideas about physical processes

• categories of information about Earth

• similarities among different places

• questions that geographers ask

What is absolute location?

• the position of one place compared to another

• the region that contains a place

• the characteristics that make a place unique

• the exact point where a place is found

When geographers study the economic life of people from a certain place, what essential element are they studying?

• human systems

• physical systems

• spatial thinking

• places and regions

What is the difference between region and a continent?

• - may use water trade for goods

• - A region can be larger or smaller than a continent as long as the area has a common characteristics making it different from other regions.

• - may have seafood offered in resturants near the water

• - region is a country not a continent

Which phrase best summarizes what geographers study?

• the history of cities around the world

• the reasons that people and nations engage in trade

• the science of how GPS works

• the location of places and the people who live there

Similarities among places such as large cities that are near bodies of water are called ________.

• terrace

• spatial thinking

• categorize

• geographic patterns

What theme of geography explains how people, ideas, and animals get from one place to another?

• place

• location

• region

• movement

It is ________, or important, for geographers to use spatial thinking to ask questions.

• significant

• oceans

• processes

• terrace

There are seven different _______on Earth which include Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, and Antartica.

• processes

• continents

• oceans

• elements