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Unit Test Study Guide: Understanding the Earth and Its Peoples
1. What is geography?
2. Which theme asks the question, “How do people relate to the physical world”?
3. Describe the theme place in your own words.
4.
What do cartographers make?
5. List the satellites and their functions used by geographers today.
6.
What does a climatologist do?
7.
What does an urban planner do?
8. Describe what it means to look at the world in spatial terms?
9. Which theme asks, “How do people, goods, and ideas get from one location to another location?”
10. What would a remote sensing specialist be most likely to work with?
11. List an example of remote sensing.
12. What geographer would advise where to build a bus station so it is close to arenas?
13. What is a representation of a part of the Earth that sometimes can be distorted?
14. Which system is a computer-based mapping technology?
*Be familiar with knowing how to find locations using lines of latitude and longitude*
Key Terms
Geography Tools:
Landsat – a series of satellites that orbit the Earth and gather information
Global Positioning System (GPS) – uses a network of Earth-orbiting satellites to collect information about the
location of a receiver.
Geographic Information System(GIS) – a computer-based mapping technology that gathers, stores, analyzes, and
shows information about places. It puts all of this information onto a map, sometimes in layers or each map is
created individually.
Geography Careers:
Cartographer – a person who creates maps
Surveyor – people who map and measure the land
Location analyst – a person who studies an area to find the best location for someone. For example, a person
who wants to build a new shopping center would use a location analyst to help him/her pick the best location to
build.
Urban planner – a person who creates plans for improving parts of a city. Urban = city: Rural = countryside
Climatologist – a geographer who study climates