1. Chapter 1 Sec 1
Guided Reading

2. What is Geography?
the study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.
Landscape: all the human and physical features that make a place unique.
Think, don’t write: Describe the landscape of Cairo, Egypt.

3. Geography as a science: Observe, measure, and view satellite images
Geography as a science: Observe, measure, and view satellite images. Geography as a Social Science: Geography deals with people and HOW they live.

4. Local Level:
How do people in a town or community live.

5. Regional Level
A part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas.

6. Global Level
How people interact globally

7. Geographer’s Tools: MAPS & GLOBES:
Both show what the world looks like.
Both show where mountains, deserts, oceans, countries and major cities are.
A globe is spherical- it can show how
The world really is, a map doesn’t.
Maps are easier to work with
Maps show all sorts of information, globes
just show where things are.

8. Geographers’ Other Tools:
Satellite Images
Computer Programs
Measuring Devices
Notebook
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