The branch of geography that studies how human activity affects or is influenced by Earth's surface

to break down into parts and study each part carefully.

a system of ideas and concepts that attempt to explain and prove why or how interactions have occurred in the past or will occur in the future.

key vocabulary, ideas, and building blocks that geographers use to describe our world.

a series of steps or actions that explain why or how geographic patterns occur.

representations of reality or theories about reality, to help geographers see general spatial patterns, focus on the influence specific factors, and understand variations from place to place.

look like stylized maps, and they illustrate theories about spatial distributions.

illustrate theories and concepts using words, graphs, or tables. They often depict changes over time

model that helps explain some patterns evident on the Earth at night

the general arrangement of things being studied.

a set of interconnected entities, sometimes called nodes.

any information that can be measured and recorded using numbers

has a geographic location component to it such as a country, city, zip code, latitude, longitude, or address and is often used with geographic information systems

is collected as interviews, photographs, remote satellite images, descriptions, or cartoons.

looking at topics at the local, regional, country, or global scale.

use this process when looking at a map, chart, graph, data table, landscape, or an image such as Earth at night; comprehension, identification, explanation, and prediction