Unit 1

Question 1

What is geography?

Answer 1

the world, nature, humans and the interaction of human and nature.

Question 2

What does geography force us to identify?

Answer 2

What is where?
Why there?
Why care?

Question 3

What are the two main types of geography?

Answer 3

Physical Geography (forests, rivers)
Human Geography (houses, churches)

Question 4

Why is geography important?

Answer 4

It teaches us skills like map reading.

Question 5

What are the major levels/scopes of geography?

Answer 5

Local (ex. Markham)
Regional (ex. York Region)
Provincial (ex. Ontario)
National (ex. Canada)
International (ex. World)

Question 6

What is latitude?

Answer 6

Lines of latitude measure north-south position between the poles.

Question 7

What is longitude?

Answer 7

Lines of longitude run between the North and South Poles, measure east-west position.

Question 8

What is a hemisphere?

Answer 8

a half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves or eastern and western halves

Question 9

What is a continent?

Answer 9

any of the world’s main continuous expanses of land

Question 10

What is a scale?

Answer 10

the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground.

Question 11

How to we identify specific location?

Answer 11

using longitude and latitude

ex. Kingston, Jamaica (17N 76W)

Question 12

How do we identify relative location?

Answer 12

ex. Canada is north of USA

Question 13

What are the mapping rules?

Answer 13

appropriate title
your name
black ink for labels
pins/icons that are suitable
north arrow in appropriate location
accurate labels + pin points
correct spelling

Question 14

What are the SPEEC lenses?

Answer 14

social
political
economic
environmental
cultural

Question 15

What is a cartographer?

Answer 15

mapmakers who measure, map, and chart the earth’s surface

spend most of their day indoors working on computers

Question 16

How much do cartographers get paid?

Answer 16

$30K - $80K a year