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A Geographer's World Flashcards

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1
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The level of geography is why people live and work the way that they do.

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Local

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Example of Local geography

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Rec center

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The level of geography with one or more common features

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regional

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Why do we have to do things so slow and detailed?

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  1. the world is huge
  2. studying a large land area is hard
  3. how people interact with each other
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The level of geography that is the world

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Global

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Example of global geography

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Imports and exports

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Which level of geography is about finding people globally and building relationships with people far away?

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Global

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This branch of geography is the study of the world’s physical geographic features

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Physical geography

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Examples of physical geography

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landforms, climate, bodies of water, soil, plants

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This branch of geography is the study of the world’s human geographic features

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Human geography

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Examples of human geography

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Peoples, communities, landscapes

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This branch of geography is the study of maps and map making

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Cartography

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This branch of geography is about the about the study of water on Earth

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Hydrology

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This branch of geography is about the study of weather

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Meteorology

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This theme of geography is about absolute location

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Location

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Example of location:

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Your address

General location =a name of a city

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This theme of geography is about the area’s landscapes and features that define the area and make it unique

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Place

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Example of Place:

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land, climate, people

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This theme of geography is about environment interactions

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Human

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How people and their physcial environment effect other environments includes….

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land, water, climate, plants, animals

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This theme of geography is where geographers want to know how and why people move, roads, and routes to travel

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Movement

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This theme of geography likes to compare regions and why a place has developed as it has.

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Regions

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What are the 6 essential elements of geography?

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World in speical terms
Places and regions
Physical systems
Human systems
Environment and society
Uses of geography
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North and South imaginary lines

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Longitude

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East and West imaginary lines

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Latitude

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Earth’s land surface divided into 7 large land masses

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Continents

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7 contients

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Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, Antartica, North America, South America

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5 oceans

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Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Artic, and Indian

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represents the distance between points on a map

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Map scale

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shows what the subject of a map is

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Map title

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Directional indicator that shows which way North, South, East, and West is

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Compass rose

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A politcal boundary

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border

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explains what the symbol on a map represents

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map legend

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contains the symbols on the map and shows what they mean

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map key

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the equator and prime meredian divides the world in halves

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hemisphere

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north, east, south, west

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cardinal directions

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northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest

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intermediate directions

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passes through the mid Pacific Ocean and roughly follows at 100 degrees longitutde north and south line

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International date line

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imaginary line that divides the world in east/west halves

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Prime meredian

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A smaller map on the same page that zooms on only one part

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inset map

41
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How parallels measure distance from the equator

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degrees

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a ball shaped model of the world and it’s continents

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globe

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a flat drawing that show all or a part of the world

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map

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This type of map projection is based on a cylinder wrapped around a globe

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cydrical projections

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This type of map projection is based on a cone over the globe

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Comic projections

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This type of map projection is based on a plane that’s touching the globe

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flat-plane projections

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the study of the world

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Geography

48
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all the human physical features that make a place unique

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landscape

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A field that studies people and their relationships among them

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social science

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a technology system that transmits information from satellites to earth giving the exact location of a given object on our planet

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global positioning system (GPS)

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technolgoy system that combines and provides geographic information from many different sources

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geographic information system (GIS)

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a pattern of imaginary lines that circle the globe in east west and north south directions

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grid

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a line of latitude

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parallels

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imaginary line that circles the globe halway between the north and south poles

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equator

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a unit of measurement of a globe’s surface that is part of a degree

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minutes

56
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a line of longitude

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meredians

57
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a method of showing our round planet on a flat map

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map projections

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represent the distance of points on a map

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scale

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shows where in the world the area on a map the area is located

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locator map

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This type of map shows the major political features of a region

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Political map

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This type of map shows the major physical features of a map.

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Physical Map

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This type of map focuses on one specific topic such as resources, climate, or population

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Thematic Map

7th Grade World Geography (24 decks)

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