Decide whether a question truly depends on location, pattern, or connection. Practice rewriting broad curiosity into questions a geographer could investigate with place-based evidence.

Turn a simple “Where is it?” observation into a “Why there?” question. Reason about clustering, spreading out, site advantages, nearby features, and the processes that create spatial patterns.

Compare places by their physical and human characteristics, such as landforms, climate, buildings, work, culture, and daily life. Build questions that ask how places differ and why those differences matter.

Apply the previous explanations in a guided problem.

Group places into regions based on shared traits, connections, or people’s perceptions. Practice asking where a pattern begins, ends, changes, or overlaps with another pattern.

Trace how people, goods, information, animals, water, or diseases move between places. Ask about origins, destinations, routes, barriers, and the changes movement creates along the way.

Apply the previous explanations in a guided problem.

Check your understanding with a short quiz.

Frame questions about how people use, adapt to, and change their environments. Reason through examples like farming, flooding, water use, roads, parks, pollution, and settlement choices.

Choose the area, comparison, and evidence that make a geographic question answerable. Practice narrowing everyday observations into clear questions about places, patterns, movement, or relationships.

Apply the previous explanations in a guided problem.

Check your understanding with a short quiz.

Review this chapter with practice based on your mistakes.