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Exploring Geography Basics: Concepts, People, and Places

Dive into the fundamental concepts of human geography in this interactive quiz game. Test your knowledge of key terms, basic concepts, and influential figures in the field of geography. From understanding the definition of geography to exploring the impact of humans on the environment, this game challenges your understanding of the world around us. Engage with topics like cartography, cultural landscape, and geographic information systems as you navigate through different levels of difficulty. Enjoy learning about spatial perspectives, sustainability, and the intersection of human and physical geography. Are you ready to explore the diverse aspects of geography in a fun and educational way?

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Exploring Geography Basics: Concepts, People, and Places

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  1. Human Geography Chapter 1 GAME RULES FINAL ROUND Terms Basic Concepts People Geography place 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

  2. Category A 100 Geo means earth and graphy means to write

  3. Category A 100 What does the word “geography” mean?

  4. Category A 200 CARTOGRAPHY.

  5. Category A 200 WHAT IS THE SCIENCE OF MAP MAKIING?

  6. Category A 300 A TOOL FOR STORING REFERENCE MATERIAL AND A TOOL FOR GIVING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION.

  7. Category A 300 WHAT ARE THE PURPOSES OF MAPS?

  8. Category A 400 Cartography

  9. Category A 400 What is the oldest field of Geography?

  10. Category A 500 A set of computer tools that capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic data

  11. Category A 500 What is a Geographical Information system or (GIS)?

  12. Category B 100 Carl Sauer

  13. Category B 100 Who defined the concept of cultural landscape as a fundamental unit of geographical analysis and said there is no area not altered by humans?

  14. Category B 200 Ptolemy

  15. Category B 200 Who wrote an eight volume “Guide to Geography” and codified the basic principles of mapmaking?

  16. Category B 300 ERATOSTHENES.

  17. Category B 300 Who is the head librarian at Alexandria, one of the first cartographers, credited with naming the term “geography”?

  18. Category B 400 George Perkins Marsh

  19. Category B 400 Wrote ”Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified be Human Action” and was the first to describe how humans had impacted natural systems

  20. DAILY DOUBLE How much would you like to bet?

  21. Category B 500 He claimed that geography has four distinct traditions:earth-science traditioncultural-environment traditionlocational traditionand area-analysis tradition

  22. Category B 500 Who is W. D. Pattison?

  23. Category C 100 Spatial Perspective

  24. Category C 100 What is an examination of an area and specific phenomena to determine how and why it appears in that space and how it relates to phenomena in other spaces ?

  25. Category C 200 Quantitative Revolution

  26. Category C 200 What is the name for the period in human geography associated with the adoption of mathematical models and statistical techniques?

  27. DAILY DOUBLE How much would you like to bet?

  28. Category C 300 anthropogenic

  29. Category C 300 What is the term for human-induced environmental changes?

  30. Category C 400 sustainability

  31. Category C 400 What is the term for conserving resources to ensure enough for future generations?

  32. Category C 500 Nomothetic

  33. Category C 500 This term refers to concepts that are universally applicable?

  34. Category D 100 The study of interactions between societies and their natural environments

  35. Category D 100 What is cultural ecology?

  36. Category D 200 The intersection of human and physical geography, it explores the spatial impact humans have on physical environments and vice versa

  37. Category D 200 What is environmental geography?

  38. Category D 300 The study of geographic regions

  39. Category D 300 What is regional geography?

  40. Category D 400 The study of the earth’s integrated systems as a whole, instead of the focus of one phenomena in a place

  41. Category D 400 What is systematic geography?

  42. Category D 500 Pertains to the unique facts or characteristics of a particular place

  43. Category D 500 What is Idiographic?

  44. Category E 100 The relationship between the portion of the Earth being studied and the Earth as a whole.

  45. Category E 100 What is scale?

  46. Category E 200 a name given to a certain place on the Earth

  47. Category E 200 What is a toponym?

  48. Category E 300 Physical characteristics of a place such as climate, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation that are used by geographers to describe the location of a place.

  49. Category E 300 What is a site?

  50. DAILY DOUBLE Place your bets!

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