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What is one way that geographers use satellites?

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?

2. A social science is a field that studies people and

A. geography. B. their environment. C. the landscapes they create. D. their relationships.

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.

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.

5. A geographer’s tools include

A. maps and globes. B. satellite images. C. notebooks and tape recorders. D. all of the above.

6. Which of the following is an essential element of geography?

A. uses of geography B. latitude C. relative location D. movement

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

8. Your street address describes

A. absolute location. B. your society. C. relative location. D. your environment.

9. Which of the following is not one of the five themes of geography?

A. place B. environment C. regions D. movement

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.

11. The study of weather and its causes is

A. meteorology B. cartography C. geography D. hydrology

12. Which theme of geography describes features that make a site unique?

A. human-environment interaction B. movement C. location D. place

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.

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

15._________ and other tools help geographers study the planet.

Maps Landscapes

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

Regional Global

17. The information gathered by___________helps geographers make accurate maps.

Tape Recorders Satellites

18. The _________ is a list of 18 basic ideas that everybody should understand about geography

National Geography Standards Themes of Geography

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

Technology Hydrology

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

True False

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

True False

22. Geography is both a science and social science.

True False

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

True False

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

True False

Study these vocabulary words.

Physical geography Themes Human geography Essential elements Hydrology Meteorology

Landscape Cartography Geography Region Social science Map