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Global perspectives
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How do geographers use tools to understand the world? | Geographers use maps, graphs, and charts to see global patterns or changes. Geography can help you develop valuable insights about the earth, its people and the relationship between them. |
| What are the 5 themes of geography? | location, place, region, movement, and human-environmental interaction |
| How do geographers identify location? | Location- Using the longitude, latitude, equator, and prime meridian you can find the absolute location of a place. you can also find the relative location of a place by comparing it to other places. |
| How do geographers identify place? | They identify place by looking at their unique physical characteristics including landforms, ecosystems and climate . They can also look at human characteristics like people, languages, customs, beliefs and work. |
| How do geographers identify region? | Regions are determined by common characteristics |
| why do geographers study movement and human-environmental interaction? | They study it to predict and prevent different things that might happen as people are moving or interacting with other people. |
| geography | the study of where people, places, and things are located and how they related to each other |
| GIS | A geographic information, system which uses computer technology to collect and analyze data about the earth's surface in order to solve geographic problems |
| absolute location | its position on the globe |
| hemisphere | Half of the earth; divides the northern and southern atmosphere |
| relative location | the position of a place in relation to another place |
| character of a place | The physical and human characteristics that help to distinguish a place from other places |
| perception | a viewpoint that is influenced by one's own culture and experiences. |
| formal region | a group of places that have similar attributes, for example, a political region. |
| functional region | A group of places connected by movement, for example, the region drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries |
| perceptional region | A group of places that is deigned by people's feelings and attitudes |
| How can Texas be considered to be part of more than one region? | Texas could have the same characteristics with more than one state. |
| What recent technological advances have helped geographers study the earth? | GIS, satellites |
| What kind of Physical and Human characteristics do geographers use to describe a place. | Physical-landforms, ecosystems, and climate Human-languages, customs and beliefs |
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