GEOGRAPHY BASICS
This is the detailed study of Earth and how people relate to it.
What is geography?
This line at 0° longitude passes through Greenwich, England.
What is the prime meridian?
This projection preserves compass directions and was historically useful to navigators.
What is the Mercator projection?
This map element explains the meaning of colors, lines, and symbols.
What is the map legend?
This term means a group’s customs, traditions, and habits.
What is culture?
Location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region make up this set.
What are the five themes of geography?
These imaginary east-west lines measure distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
This compromise projection minimizes several kinds of distortion across a world map.
What is the Robinson projection?
These lines connect points of equal elevation on a relief map.
What are contour lines?
Religion, institutions, social groups, aesthetics, and physical environment make up this set.
What are the five themes of culture?
absolute or relative to ones environment
What is location?
These imaginary north-south lines measure distance east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
This map contains 12 paper strips
What is an gore map?
A map focused on population, rainfall, or resources is this type.
What is a thematic map?
Art, music, literature, and ideas of beauty belong to this cultural theme.
What is aesthetics?
The spread of people, products, and ideas is described by this geographic theme.
What is movement?
This line at 0° latitude divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This unavoidable change in shape, size, distance, or direction occurs when Earth is shown on a flat map.
What is distortion?
Collecting geographic information from aircraft or satellites is called this.
What is remote sensing?
Schools, governments, and economic systems belong to this cultural theme.
What are institutions?
This biblical calling tells people to exercise responsible dominion and stewardship over Earth.
What is the Creation Mandate?
Together, the prime meridian and this opposite meridian form a great circle.
What is the 180° meridian?
For a polar air-route map, a cartographer would most likely choose this projection.
What is an azimuthal projection?
This computer system stores, combines, and analyzes layers of geographic information.
What is GIS, or a geographic information system?
Climate, landforms, resources, and human adaptation belong to this cultural theme.
What is the physical environment?