Study for Unit 1 Test in World Area Studies

What is your first and last name?

What are the three levels at which geographers look at the world?

• local

• regional

• global

• territorial

At the _ level, geographers try to find relationships among people who live far apart (e.g. how a product made in one country is used in another).

When geographers do field work to gather data, they are acting as ​ ​ (a)   .

• scientists
• traders
• tourists
• mapmakers

Because it deals with ​ (a)   and how they live, geography is sometimes called a ​ (b)   .

• people
• social science
• hard science
• animals
• biological science
• starfish
• starfish science

The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.

• Biology

• Geography

• Math

• History

​ (a)   is the branch of geography that looks at landforms, bodies of water, ​ (b)   , soil, and plants.

• Physical geography
• climate
• chicken nuggets
• Human Geography
• transportation
• movement
• Biological geography

Match the following.

• Studies land, water, climate, soil etc.

• meteorology

• Science of water and its movement.

• human geography

• Science of drawing maps.

• physical geography

• Studies the world's people.

• cartography

• Study of the atmosphere and weather.

• hydrology

Which theme of geography would include saying that D'Evelyn is at 10359 West Nassau Avenue?

• region

• place

• location

• human-environment interaction

• movement

Which theme of geography describes the features that make a site unique?

• place

• location

• region

• human-environment interaction

• movement