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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

STUDY GUIDE

5 themse of geography


  • ·         Places
  • ·         Region
  • ·         Human Environment interactions
  • ·         Location
  • ·         Movement

(Including the description for each words and examples)

6 Essential Needs
  • ·         World of spatial terms
  • ·         Places and region
  • ·         Physical systems
  • ·         Human systems
  • ·         Environmental and society
  • ·         User of geography

3 main types of maps
  • ·         Political
  • ·         Physical
  • ·         Thematic (including variety of types: economic, resources, battle map, population…)

What are?
  • ·         Geography
  • ·         Spatial term
  • ·         Environment
  • ·         Longitude
  • ·         Latitude

_Explain what are Maps and the important of Maps.
_Understand the meaning of Culture; be able to list out unique topics that pull out the words Culture (trade, religion, literature, currency…)
_Be able to understand the definition of Active readers: Summarizing and Questioning

Geography jobs
  • ·         Land surveyor
  • ·         Location analyst
  • ·         Urban planner
  • ·         Climatologist
  • ·         Cartographer




Geographic tools (reference)
  • ·         Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)
  • ·          Remote sensing
  • ·         Geographic Information System (GIS)
  • ·         Irrigation system
_What is a Compass? Explain the help of it.
_Be able to located North, East, South, and West through using a Compass

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It looks similar to mine...why? Aha, because we did it together in the same group :)) !
I like how you include Cartographer in it, since it is not in the 4 main jobs.

JennyDOng said...

you are right, cartographer isn't count as main jobs, but still i don't know where to put it, you know, can't be on "tools" topic!

Ryanvu1997 said...

Wow, that's a very details study guide, you guys did a good job.

JennyDOng said...

@ ryanvu1997 you guys?? i thought it was only me!! :)) but thanks

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