WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Earth's Land, People, and Environment

Lines of latitude and longitude appear on the surface of Earth.

Geography has five themes: place, location, region, movement, & human-environment interaction.

Geography emphasizes the spatial features of the world.

The most accurate way to show Earth is with a globe because, like Earth, a globe is a sphere.

The key, scale bar, distance scale, and compass rose are all elements of a map.

By learning geography, we gain greater appreciation for the world in which we live.

The study of geography is the study of the names of states and their capitals.

The Equator is the most important place on Earth because it runs around the middle of Earth.

Flat maps show more kinds of information than globes, but they distort the location of things.

Earth is static and unchanging.

A place is a location on Earth that has special meaning for a person or a group of people.

GPS and GIS are two examples of new geospatial technology.