Name ______

Chapter 1 Lesson 2

Tools of Geography

WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY?

●Geography - ______

______

Why Study Geography?

•It ______of a place.

LANDFORMS

Examples: ______

______

______

The Five Themes of Geography

Location (______)

•______

• absolute vs. relative location

Place

•______

Human-Environment Interaction

•How the ______

–______

–______

Movement

•______

______

– relationship among places

–Spread of information and culture

Regions

•______

–a region has a unifying characteristic such as

–______

–______

–______

–______

Remembering the 5 themes

If you can’t remembering what they are just ask MR. HELP!!!

•M – Movement

•R – Regions

•HE – Human Environment interaction

•L – Location

•P - Place

Geography

●______.

●It looks at the major features of the earth's crust, including the ______, ______, and ______of the earth's various landforms of ______, ______, and ______.

●The study of geography focuses on two broad categories

–physical systems

–human systems.

Human systems

•processes ______

•that shape earth's surface and

•interact with plant and animal life to create, sustain, and modify ecosystems

Physical systems

•processes ______

•shape the earth's surface

•interact with plant and animal life to create, sustain, and modify ecosystems

Physical Processes

Among the physical processes studied:

Geographic Tools: Globes and Maps

The Globe

It is the best tool to use to:

–______between two locations.

–Understand ______

–______of landforms and bodies of water.

Axis

•______.

•Is tilted the same way and always points north and south.

Time Zones

•There are ______

•Each time zone is ______

•At any given time, it is an hour earlier in the time zone to the West of where you are now, and an hour later in the time zone to the East .

Representing the Earth: Maps

●Maps are ______.

●They are projections of our ______.

–For this reason, ______in shape, area, distance, and/or direction.

Map Grids

Latitude & Longitude

–______are measured in ______.

–Latitude & longitude are used to determine absolute location

  • Absolute Location-______
  • Relative Location-______

Latitude

–imaginary lines that ______

–measure distance ______

Longitude

–Imaginary lines that ______

–measure distance ______

Equator

–an imaginary line ______

Prime Meridian

–imaginary line that ______

Parts of a Map

•Compass Rose - ______

•Scale - ______

•Legend—key; ______

Types of Maps

•Reference Maps - ______

•Political Maps - ______, the location of major cities

•Physical Maps- maps used to primary ______like deserts, mountains and plains

•Thematic Map - ______, theme, or spatial distribution of an activity

•Map projections of the earth's surface are used to fulfill an intended purpose of the map and not to accurately represent the earth in every detail.

•all maps contain inaccuracies or distortions in shape, area, distance, and/or direction.