Interactive Geography Lab
The Geographer's Question Lab
The same landscape can yield several geographic investigations. Choose a case, then change the question you ask of it. The image does not change, but the evidence you need does.
1. Choose a landscape
Desert Farm Circles
Green circles interrupt an arid landscape where irrigation water is pumped from underground aquifers.
ISS Expedition 30 / NASA · Public domain
2. Change the geographic question
Your geographic question
Where do the circular fields occur, and what pattern do they form?
Evidence to seekSatellite imagery, field locations, wells, roads, and regional maps of the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin.
Why it is geographicIt begins by describing a spatial pattern before trying to explain the process that produced it.
Do not stop atNaming Saudi Arabia or simply noticing that the fields are circular.
Try one lens on several landscapes, or keep one landscape selected and change the question. There is no required click sequence.
Press Escape or click outside the image to close.Open original image