Studying Territories

What is the definition of Regional Geography?

• Studies the features of the earth and the natural processes that occur there.

• Studies people and their relationship with the earth.

• Applies the study of the world to specific areas, focussing on their unique characteristics.

What is the definition of Human Geography?

• Studies the features of the earth and the natural processes that occur there.

• Studies people and their relationship with the earth.

• Applies the study of the world to specific areas, focussing on their unique characteristics.

What is the definition of Physical Geography?

• Studies the features of the earth and the natural processes that occur there.

• Studies people and their relationship with the earth.

• Applies the study of the world to specific areas, focussing on their unique characteristics.

Who created one of the first known maps in the 2nd century?

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Ptolemy

Portolan Charts were created in which historical age?

• Antiquity

• The Middle Ages

• The Early Modern period

• The Contemporary age

Used to navigate the seas.

• Ptolemy's map

• Portolan charts

First map to attempt to represent America.

• Portolan Charts

• Ptolemy's map

• Juan de la Cosa's map

Which 2 of the following are considered the 'fathers of Geography'?

• Carl Ritter

• Immanuel Kant

• Alexander von Humboldt

• Charles Darwin

The representation of territories is known as C_________Y

The Mercator projection is...

• Conical

• Cylindrical

• Azimuthal