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The study of Earth
What is geography?
Geographers are able to pinpoint the location of a place from east to west by using…
What is longitude lines?
Through their study of Earth, geographers learn how Earth and its people affect…
What is each other?
Latitude and longitude lines help geographers identify…
What is absolute location?
The section of a map that explains symbols for the map features…
What is the key?
North, south, east and west are each a(n)…
What is cardinal directions?
Which of the following things would geographers be most likely to study…
What is landforms and their locations?
A ________ is a line of longitude…
What is meridian?
Where would you look to find out how distances on a map compare to the actual distances on land…
What is the scale bar?
What themes do geographers use to organize information?
What is location, regions, place, movement, and human- environment interaction?
A representation of Earth’s rounded surface on a flat surface is called…
What is a globe?
There are always distortions in a map because…
What is maps are flat and Earth is round?
A change in the accuracy of shapes and distances…
What is distortion?
These questions guide geographers in their work…
What is where things located and why are they there?
Distortion on a map may change the shape of…
What is some landmasses?
What do geographers learn by studying the theme of human- environment interaction…
What is how people and environment affect each other?
A type of imaginary line that circles the globe from north to south…
What is longitude?
Geographers use the east- west circles, or lines of ______ to describe location…
What is latitude?
To learn more about Earth, geographers organize information according to what themes…
What is location, regions, place, movement, and human- environment interaction?
The most accurate way to show Earth’s continents and bodies of water is with a(n)…
What is a globe?
Geographers study regions so that they can…
What is to make comparisons between areas?
A globe is more accurate than a map because a globe can show…
What is the true shapes of continents and oceans?
What is the best way to find out the subject of a map…
What is read the title?
Geographers study how people …
What is affect each other?
Why do flat maps distorts shapes and landmasses…
What is the Earth is round and not flat?