5 Themes of
Geography
Famous
Geographers
Branches of
Geography
Other Fields of
Geography
Miscellaneous
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Every point on earth
has a description of
where it is
What is Location?
Areas of the world that have
common characteristics
What are Regions?
Features that define
the area and make it
different from other
places
What is place?
The way people,
goods, and ideas
travel from place to
place
What is movement?
A relationship between
people and their
environment; how
people adapt to the
environment and how
they change it
What is humanenvironment interaction?
The science of making
maps
What is cartography?
The study of weather
and what causes it
What is Meteorology?
The study of water on Earth
What is hydrology?
The study of how
people make and
spend money
What is economic
geography?
The study of cities and
how people live in them
What is urban
geography?
The study of the world’s
physical features- its
landforms, bodies of water,
climates, soils, and plants
What is physical
geography?
The study of the
world’s people,
communities, and
landscapes
What is human
geography?
This type of
geographer would
study weather and
climate
What is a physical
geographer?
This type of geographer
can help people design
schools, roads, and
shopping malls
What is a human
geographer?
This type of geographer
would study soils and
plants
What is a physical
geographer?
This famous geographer
figured out how large
Earth is
Who is Eratosthenes?
This famous geographer
created a new kind of
geography in the 1900s
called human geography
Who is Ellen Churchill
Semple?
This famous
geographer put
together what is
considered the world’s
first geography book
Who is Claudius
Ptolemy?
This famous geographer
was one of the first
westerners to travel to
China
Who is Marco Polo?
This famous
geographer is
sometimes called the
Father of Geography
Who is Eratosthenes?
The equator divides the
world into these two
hemispheres
What is the northern
and southern
hemispheres?
This imaginary line runs
through Greenwich, England at
0* longitude and is the starting
point for measuring distances
east and west
What is the prime
meridian?
This imaginary line is 0*
latitude and is the starting
point for measuring
distances north and
south
What is the equator?
Maps, globes, satellite
images, notebooks, and
tape recorders are all
examples of these
What are geographer’s
tools?
Longitude and Latitude
coordinates describe this
type of location
What is absolute
location?