1. Chapter 1: The World of Geography
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2. Chapter 1: What is Geography?
The last definition is really at the heart of geography. Maps are the tools of geographers: If something can be mapped, it’s geography.
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4. What is a geographer?
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5. The Five Themes of Geography
There are five ways to look at the earth
When geographers work, they are guided by two basic questions:
______________________________?
To find these answers, geographers use five themes to organize information
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6. Things that geographers study:
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7. The Five Themes:
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8. ____________________ – Helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
____________________ – Geographers compare the climate, land, population, or history of one place to another.
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9. Location There are two ways to think about location:
absolute location – _______________ _______________________________.
Examples:
relative location – _______________
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10. Place
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11. Human-Environment Interaction
How do people adjust to and change their environment? How does the environment adjust to and change the people?
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12. Movement
Explains how _______________________ __________________________________.
Helps geographers understand cultural changes.
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13. Regions
A region has a unifying characteristic, like __________________________________.
On maps, geographers use color and shape or special symbols to show regions.
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