Ch. 1 Intro to Geography

What is Geography?

• The study of the Earth's human and physical features

• The study of the mountains and rivers

• The study of people and roads

• The study of animals and their habitats

What is Landscape?

• The skyline

• All the human and physical features

• All the areas that have people

• The water and the people

What is Geographic perspective?

• physical and human features

• 1. the study of the distribution and interaction of Earth’s physical and human features

• work done at a local level

• a way of looking at the world that focuses on understanding spatial features and relationships

What is Social Science?

• a field that studies people and their relationships

• the way the land and the water is made

• studying maps and guides

• studying in another country

What is Field Work?

• spatial features and relationships

  
  

•  human and physical features

  
  

• 1. Earth’s physical and human features

  
  

• work done at a local level to gather information and data

  
  

What is a Region?

• people and their relationships

• the study of the distribution and interaction

• a part of the world that has one or more common features that make it different from the surrounding areas

  
  

• work done at a local level

What are the 3 areas that geographers study? Click all 3 answers

• Global

• Research

• Local

• Regional

Geographers who focus on studying people are considered ________ scientists.

To answer their questions, geographers often do ____ work. They go to a place and collect data and information to understand why people live and work the way they do or what the environment is like.

Some ______are defined by physical characteristics such as mountains, climates, or plants. As a result, these regions are easy to define. Other ____are based on the human characteristics of a place, such as shared language, government, or history.