Geographer’s Tools Test Review
Objectives:
3 B Describe the physical processes that affect the environment of regions, including weather,
tectonic forces, soil-building and erosion.
3 C Examine the physical processes that affect the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and
biosphere.
4 B Describe the different landforms and the physical processes that cause their development.
5 A Analyze how the character of a place is related to its political, economic, social, and
cultural elements.
8 B Describe the interaction between humans and the physical environment and analyze the
consequences of extreme weather and other natural disasters such as El Nino, floods,
tsunamis, and volcanoes.
9 B Describe different types of regions, including formal, functional, and perceptual regions.
13 A/21 B Interpret maps/Locate places of geopolitical significance
19 B Analyze ways technological innovations such as air conditioning and desalination have
allowed humans to adapt to places.
20 A Describe the impact of new technologies such as the internet, GPS, or GIS.
Concepts to Study:
1. What are the 5 Themes of Geography? How are they used?
a. Location- what is it?
i. Absolute
1. Be able to plot points on the map using coordinates
ii. Relative
iii. Tools used to determine location and their function1. GIS
2. GPS
3. Satellites
4. Maps
a. Map projections- what are they?
b. Advantage and disadvantage
5. Globe
a. Advantage and disadvantage
iv. Affect of new technology on societyb. Place- what is it?
i. Internal Forces:
1. Types of Plate Movements and what they create
2. Parts of the Earth and their functionsa. Biosphere
b. Hydrosphere
c. Lithosphere
d. Atmosphere
ii. Mt. St. Helen’s affect on the physical environmentiii. Ring of Fireiv. External Forces:
1. Weathering2. Erosion3. Soil erosionv. Weather- where does it occur? What causes weather?
1. El Ninovi. Natural disasters-
c. Human Environment Interaction- what is it?
i. Examples of how people interact with/adapt to their environmentii. Adapting to the Ring of Fire
iii. Storm of 1900 and the Seawall
d. Region- what is it?
i. Formal: what is it? Give example.
ii. Functional: What is it? Give example.
iii. Perceptual: What is it? Give example.
e. Movement- what is it?
i. Examples of movement
ii. Types of distance to measure movement
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Vocabulary to know and be able to apply:
Weathering
Fault
Absolute location
GPS
Physical map
Tsunami
Geologist
Atmosphere
Prime Meridian
Functional region
Water cycle
erosion
convergent
relative location
GIS
thematic map
volcano
cartographer
biosphere
equator
Ring of Fire
Great Circle Route
wind erosion
divergent
map projections
satellites
external force
earthquake
El Nino
lithosphere
perceptual region
suburb
water erosion
transform
globe
political map
internal force
seismic monitor
weather
hydrosphere
formal region
meteorologist