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What is geography
the study of people, places and environment
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What is map and globe
Both are ways to represent features found on Earth.
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What is three topics you study in geography
people, places, and environments
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What are the 5 themes of geography
Location, place, region, movement, human-environment interaction
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What is spatial
Where a place is located and its physical relationship to other places, people, or environments.
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What is remote sensing, Landsat, GIS, GPS
technology tools
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What is the difference between location and place
Where it is located and what it is like
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What are six essential elements
the world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, the uses of geography
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What is database
A collection of information that can be analyzed
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What is climatologist, surveyor, cartographer, urban planner
geography jobs
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What is an example of a technologically advanced geographer's tool
GIS
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What is how do people adapt to their physical world
People can change the environment to make it more livable, or they can choose to move to a different and better environment
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What is environment
Physical and human conditions on the earth
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What is place and region
made up of similar places
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What is the main activity of a geographer's job
studying geographic information
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What is
Studying geography to find patterns can help to explain why people acted as they did under certain circumstances and what events occurred when they did.
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What is remote sensing
Obtaining information about a site by using an instrument that is not physically in contact with the site
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What is map and cartographer
a cartographer is a geographer who creates maps
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What is a location analyst
studies geographic information to provide a client with positive and negative points about a location
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