Geography Test Practice.docx

Doc 1: Understanding and noticing that geography is a tool and not a subject **Summary**: Geography is more than just a subject; it\'s a tool to help us understand the world. It can be used in many fields, like studying animal populations, tracking diseases, or planning where to build businesses. G...

Doc 1: Understanding and noticing that geography is a tool and not a subject **Summary**: Geography is more than just a subject; it\'s a tool to help us understand the world. It can be used in many fields, like studying animal populations, tracking diseases, or planning where to build businesses. Geography helps solve problems by looking at how humans interact with the environment. In simple terms, geography is the science of how the Earth works and how humans change it. All major issues, like pollution, traffic, refugee crises, and climate change, have a geographic aspect that can help us find solutions **Going Deeper: \"**The study of how things change over space and time on the Earth\'s surface.\" This refers to how geography examines spatial and temporal changes, which studies where things happen (space) and how they change over time (time). Doc 2: The concept of Geographical Thinking and perspectives **Summary**: The document explains that in geography, perspectives are shaped by facts and opinions. There are four key perspectives: social (impact on people), environmental (impact on nature), political (government decisions), and economic (jobs and money). It also covers an activity about deciding whether Canada should harvest or protect the Boreal Forest, encouraging the use of these perspectives to form fact-based opinions​(The Concepts of Geography...). **Going Deeper:** According to the document, facts are proven truths backed by data, research, or scientific studies. They provide reliable evidence to support a perspective. Opinions, on the other hand, are personal views or judgments that may not be based on facts or knowledge and are often influenced by feelings or beliefs​ Doc 3: Geographic Thinking - Patterns and Trends **Summary:** The slide deck covers geographic thinking, focusing on patterns and trends. Patterns show how things are arranged in a geographic area, often illustrated on maps, and can be clustered or dispersed. Trends represent changes over time, typically displayed through graphs, like the rise in electric car sales. To study patterns and trends, one should observe data, describe it using geographic vocabulary, and hypothesize reasons for the patterns or trends. Examples include lung cancer rates, atmospheric CO2 levels, and global iPhone sales. The slide deck emphasizes using maps for patterns and graphs for trends to improve our understanding of geographic phenomena **Going Deeper: According to the slideshow, the key differences between patterns and trends are:** Patterns refer to how features are arranged or spread out over a geographic area. They are best displayed on maps and can be characterized as clustered, dispersed, linear, or absent. Trends, on the other hand, represent changes over time and are typically illustrated through graphs. They show the general direction in which something is developing or changing. **To differentiate them, consider the following characteristics:** Patterns occur over space and involve the arrangement of features on the Earth's surface, while trends occur over time and involve changes in the values of features. Patterns are effectively displayed in maps, whereas trends are best represented in graphs (like line or bar graphs Doc 4: Concepts of Geographical Thinking - Interrelationships **Summary:** This slideshow discusses interrelationships, which are relations between two or more patterns or trends. It also addresses patterns and trends. It focuses on differentiating them and how to identify them using their characteristics. Additionally, it explores the relationship between humans and nature. Humans impact nature, and nature impacts humans. This is exemplified by the fact that pollution is influenced by human activity. Humans generate pollution, which affects nature. Doc 5: Geographical Thinking - Spatial Significance **Summary:** Spatial Significance: The importance of a particular location. This involves knowing where a place is, its natural and human features, and how the location impacts people and the planet. When geographers want to find that absolute location, they use certain steps to find out the absolute spot. Step 1, identifying the location of the event (absolute location and relative location). Step 2, identify the natural aspects of this event (landscape, natural resources, conditions, and processes). Step 3, identify the human aspects of this event (things we do, build, and cause). Step 4, why is it important (Human impacts and natural impacts) **Going Deeper:** Writing a spatial significance must include all four steps to make sense. This is used by geographers to provide more information on a certain topic. Step 4 will make reference to SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC, and or POLITICAL impacts. Doc 6: Geographical Thinking - Geospatial Technologies **Summary**: There are 4 types of main geospatial technologies. Gps, Gis, Remote Sensing, and Telematics. GPS is a satellite network that provides location data. 24 satellites track your movement. GIS is a computer system that stores, analyzes, and visualizes geographic information as digital maps. It helps discover patterns, trends, and interrelationships. Remote sensing is seeing or measuring something from a distance, using a satellite, airplane, camera, radar, or lidar. It is used to collect data that can be viewed in a GIS. Finally, telematics is any type of technology that shares data collected by connected devices. It creates a network of devices that "talk" to each other. **Going Deeper:** Geographers use these tools to generate information into maps and applications that we can use. Applications include Google Maps, snap Maps, Find My iPhone, and other applications. Things like cars have GPS but also use telematics because of the information that cars have in them that are called telematics which helps applications like GPS recognize this information such as speed and distance by using data from the car. Doc 7: Geographical Thinking - Understanding Geographical Data **Summary:**