What is Ms. Sandoval's biggest goal?

To help her students succeed in this class, To travel the world, To have her husband locate an item without her help, To help her daughter became a strong and independent woman

What is the essential question for this chapter?

Why geographers us a variety of maps to represent the world?

To calculate the population density of a place, you

divide the number of people by its land area

natural feature of Earth's surface that has distinct shape

One example of a thematic map that shows human geography is

a map showing cholera deaths near Broad Street in London

What do political maps show?

countries, states, and cities, boarders

Why do places in tropical latitudes close to the equator have hot weather year-round?

They get the most direct rays from the sun.

How are temperate grasslands and tropical grasslands different?

Temp have a cool climate. Trop have tropical wet/dry climate

What kind of housing would you expect to find in an area with a very high population density?

small apartments in skyscrapers

What mystery did John Snow solve in 1854 by thinking like a geographer?

how cholera spread through polluted drinking water

an area with 1 or more features that set it apart from other

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1
What is Ms. Sandoval's biggest goal?
To help her students succeed in this class
To travel the world
To have her husband locate an item without her help
To help her daughter became a strong and independent woman
2
What is the essential question for this chapter?
How do geographers show information on maps?
How do geographers study maps?
Why geographers us a variety of maps to represent the world?
How do geographer think spatially?
3
To calculate the population density of a place, you
multiply the # of people per square mile by its land area
add the number of people to its land area.
divide the number of people by its land area
divide the number of people by the number of its dwellings
4
In which vegetation zone would we find small trees & bushes adapted to a Mediterranean climate?
temperate grasslands
chapparal
tundra
coniferous forest
5
What shows the average temperature and precipitation in a place over a year?
a physical map
a fjord
a climagraph
a map legend
6
A landform is
the average number of people who live in a unit of area.
natural feature of Earth's surface that has distinct shape
the pattern of weather over a long period of time
one or more cultural characteristics that set it apart
7
One example of a thematic map that shows human geography is
a map showing the climate zones in Alaska
a map showing cholera deaths near Broad Street in London
a map showing gorges, ravines, woodlands, and streams
a map showing the vegetation of Yosemite National Park.
8
Which of the following is a body of water?
mesa
plateau
peninsula
strait
9
What do political maps show?
landforms like rivers and mountains
the climate of different regions
countries, states, and cities, boarders
bodies of water, climate, vegetation
10
Climate is
all the plants and trees in an area
patterns in weather over time
an area defined by one or more features
a natural feature on Earth's surface
11
What kinds of plant is best adapted to an arid climate?
pine trees
tall grasses
cacti
mosses
12
A physical map may include such features as
landforms and bodies of water
economic activity.
natural resources.
population density.
13
One of the most densely populated places on Earth is
Waltham, Vermont.
Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Skwentna, Alaska.
Avoca, Ireland.
14
Why do places in tropical latitudes close to the equator have hot weather year-round?
They are farther away from the cooling waters of the oceans.
They get more heat from Earth's core, they are closer to it
They get the most direct rays from the sun.
They are at a higher elevation than other parts of the world
15
How are temperate grasslands and tropical grasslands different?
Trees and bushes grow in temperate, but not in tropical
Temp have a cool climate. Trop have tropical wet/dry climate
Broadleaf evergreen trees grow in temperate, not in tropical
Temperate are dry & hot. Tropical are cool and moist
16
Plains and plateaus are
types of economic activity
landforms
forms of vegetation
bodies of water
17
What kind of housing would you expect to find in an area with a very high population density?
houses surrounded by farm fields
small apartments in skyscrapers
individual homes spaced miles apart
large homes with front and back yards
18
What could you learn from a climate map?
all of the above
the average temperature of an area in summer
how cold an area gets in winter
how much rainfall an area receives
19
What mystery did John Snow solve in 1854 by thinking like a geographer?
how tuberculosis spread through the coughs & sneezes of ppl
how cholera spread through polluted drinking water
how bubonic plague spread through the bites of fleas
how diphtheria spread through direct physical contact
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What is a region?
a natural characteristic of Earth's surface
a pattern of weather over a long period of time
an area with 1 or more features that set it apart from other
an action, buying, and selling of goods and services

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