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Themes of Geography

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What two questions do geographers try to answer while studying different place? Where things are located and why are they there
How do the five themes: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions- help geographers when they study the Earth? The five themes help them to organize information
What are two different ways to describe a location? Absolute location and relative location
Which way of describing location is being used when a geographer explains that a river is 250 miles north of San Antonio? Relative location
Why is the study of movement useful to geographers? Because the theme of movement helps geographers understand the relation among places.
The study of Earth and its people are called? Geography
An invisible line that forms an east-west circle around the Earth is called both? Latitude and line of parallel
An imaginary line that circles the Earth from north to south is called both? Longitude and lines of meridians
Geographers measure locations east or west of the? Prime Meridian which is numbered 0 degrees
The parallel in the middle of the globe is called the? Equator
A unit used by geographers to measure location on maps? 0 degrees
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