What is Geography

Studying Geography

A Geographer's World: Lesson 1

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Main Ideas

What should we know by the end?

By the end of all Lesson 1 activities, students should be able to answer the following questions

• What is geography?
• What do geographers do?

Key Terms

What will we need to understand in order to start this lesson?

Geography

Landscape

Social Science

Region

geography

the study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.

For every place on Earth, you can ask questions to learn about it: What does the land look like? What is the weather like? What are people's lives like? Asking questions like these is how you study geography.

landscape

human and physical features that make a place unique

Geography is the study of the world, its people, and the physical and human landscapes that make a place unique.

social science

field that studies people and the relationships among them

Geographers...ask questions about how the world works. For example, they may ask why a place gets tornadoes. To find answers, they gather dad by observing and measuring. Then they study and interpret the data. In this way, geography is like science.

region

part of the world with one or more common features distinguishing it from surrounding areas

Geographer may...study at the regional level. A region is an area with common features. A region may be big or small. It sfeatures make it different from areas around it. The features may be physical (such as mountains) or human (such as language).

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Bonus Content!

Watch the videos to learn why maps are important but also very difficult to design!

Why every world map is WRONG!