Competency 10 Flashcards
What is Geography?
study of location and how living things and the earth’s features are distributed throughout the earth
What 4 areas do Geographers study?
Location (find exact site of anything on earth)
Spatial Relations (relationship of earth’s features, places, and groups of people due to their location)
Regional Characteristics (land form, climate, types of plants, animals, and people, and how they use the land)
Forces that Change the Earth (human and natural forces)
How are Geographical studies divided?
Regional: elements and characteristics of a region
Topical: one earth feautre or one human activity that occurs throughout the world
Physical: Earth’s physical feautres, what creates and changes them and their relationships to each other
Human: human activity paterns and how they relate to their environment, politically, historically, socially, culturally, etc.
Who was an ancient greek mathmematician who calculated the circumference of the earth?
Eratosthenes (Era=Earth)
Who wrote a geographical depiction in 17 volumes of the known Ancient World?
Strabo
Who contributed his skills in mapping, and theories from studying astronomy and geography?
Ptolemy
Who was known for the first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to find riches in the far east but found the Western Hemisphere instead?
Christopher Columbus
Who were 3 explorers who contributed to geographical knowledge?
Marco Polo
Vasco Dagama
Magellan
What is the National Geographical Society?
Publisher of National Geographic, funds expeditions, and funds geographical education
What is Geography?
Study of the earth, people, and how people adapt to life on earth and how they use its resources
What is Geography connected to?
Economics, political science, sociology, anthropology
What are 2 of the most important terms in the study of Geography?
Absolute and relative location
What is absolute & relative location?
Absolute: exact whereabouts according to geographical indicators
Relative: always a description that involves more than one things
What is spatial organization?
description of how things are grouped in a given space
What changed global commerce of goods in modern history?
invention of the airplane
