Intro to Geography 2.1

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• How is geography useful?

​Essential Question:

• construct geographic questions

• use a map to identify a geographic pattern

• describe uses of geographic information

Learners Can:

A) Andes Mountains, Peru

B) Black Forest, Germany

C. Arabian Desert in the United Arab Emirates

Which place from the gallery above would you most like to visit?

- You discover how people live in these environments.
- You think about connections between different places.

• Geography comes from the Greek words geo, meaning “Earth,” and graphia, meaning “to write.”

• Geography is the study of the physical and human characteristics of places on Earth, as well as the relationships between people and their environments. When you study geography, you examine the characteristics of different environments.
  
  

1. How do people grow food in the mountains?

2. How do people survive in a cold region?

3. Why do some spaces get more rain than others?

Geographers Ask Questions!

Spatial Thinking: thinking about the features of space around you to understand the world.

The image to the right shows a city next to the sea. There are many questions you could ask, such as:

How does the sea affect what people eat?

Why did people build homes close by the sea?

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​Practice asking geographic questions

Choose one picture and use it to ask a geographic question.
Your question could like one of these examples:
Why does...?
How do people...?
How does _______ affect _________?

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1. What are Geographic Patterns?

   1. How long have people lived in a specific location?

   2. Why do people move to an urban (city) location?

   3. Why do people move to a rural (countryside) location?

2. Why do we look at geographic patterns?

   1. Make predictions about the future

   2. Use of the land

   3. Make changes to improve the land

   4. Look at the population (the number of people living in an area)

   5. Looking at the location of ports (a place where ships arrive and depart)

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