Geography is sometimes called a social science because it studies people and the relationships among them.

To find the answers to their questions, geographers gather data by observing and measuring. Then they study and interpret the data in great detail.

Geographers might study _______________ geography if they want to know how Victoria Falls was formed in Africa.

What is the science of making maps?

Geology is the study of the weather and what causes it.

A specific description of where a place is, such as an address: 1200 Garrard St. Greenwood, MS 38930

A general description of where a place is: Regions bank is on Park Avenue.

Geographers divide the world into different ____________. Dividing an area up or dividing a group of people up make it easier to study.

Maps and ________ are the most commonly used tools of geographers.

Satellites collect information that can't be seen from the planet's surface.

Satellites collect and transmit information for a technology called Global Positioning

Earth is divided into how many continents?

The _____________ rose shows which way north, south, east, and west lie on a map.

Map ____________ are the different ways mapmakers have of showing a round planet on flat maps.