2. Bellringer
What is one way that geographers use satellites?

3. A. What features make up a physical region?
1. Which of the following questions might a geographer studying at a local level ask?
A. What features make up a physical region?
B. How do people in a town or community live?
C. Which products does a country export?
D. What languages do people speak in South America?

4. 2. A social science is a field that studies people and
A. geography.
B. their environment.
C. the landscapes they create.
D. their relationships.

5. 3. The two main branches of geography are
A. physical geography and human geography.
B. the study of water and the study of landforms.
C. regional and local.
D. cartography and meteorology.

6. 4. Geographers look at the world
A. as separate regions with no effect on each other.
B. by studying cities first.
C. at the local, regional, and global levels.
D. by studying only its physical features.

7. 5. A geographer’s tools include
A. maps and globes.
B. satellite images.
C. notebooks and tape recorders.
D. all of the above.

8. 6. Which of the following is an essential element of geography?
A. uses of geography
B. latitude
C. relative location
D. movement

9. 7. Which of the following would a human geographer study?
A. soils and plants
B. maps and globes
C. economics and politics
D. weather and climate

10. 8. Your street address describes
A. absolute location.
B. your society.
C. relative location.
D. your environment.

11. 9. Which of the following is not one of the five themes of geography?
A. place
B. environment
C. regions
D. movement

12. 10. Globes can show A. specific information about a place.
B. a flat representation of the Earth’s surface.
C. the world as it really is.
D. more information than maps.

13. 11. The study of weather and its causes is
A. meteorology
B. cartography
C. geography
D. hydrology

14. 12. Which theme of geography describes features that make a site unique?
A. human-environment interaction
B. movement
C. location
D. place

15. 13. Geography is considered a social science because it
A. deals with people and how they live.
B. uses satellite imaging.
C. is studied in all countries of the world.
D. can be studied using numbers.

16. 14. Two basic types of satellite images are
A. full color and heat.
B. heat and true color.
C. full color and infrared.
D. true color and infrared

17. 15._________ and other tools help geographers study the planet.
Maps
Landscapes

18. 16. Geographers who study the world on a __________ level try to find relationships among people who live far apart.
Regional
Global

19. 17. The information gathered by___________ helps geographers make accurate maps.
Tape Recorders
Satellites

20. 18. The _________ is a list of 18 basic ideas that everybody should understand about geography
National Geography Standards
Themes of Geography

21. 19. Other branches of geography, such as _____________, examine certain aspects of the physical and human worlds.
Technology
Hydrology

22. 20. Landforms, bodies of water and the foods people eat are all aspects of human geography.
True
False

23. 21. There are no similarities between the five themes and six essential elements of geography.
True
False

24. 22. Geography is both a science and social science.
True
False

25. 23. Geographers divide the world into two regions based on latitude and longitude.
True
False

26. 24. Showing the round earth on flat maps will distort some details.
True
False

27. Study these vocabulary words.
Physical geography
Landscape
Themes
Cartography
Human geography
Geography
Essential elements
Region
Hydrology
Social science
Meteorology
Map