Vocabulary
The imaginary line that encircles the globe, dividing the earth into northern and southern halves
What is the equator?
The imaginary line at zero meridian used to measure longitude east to west, and dividing the earth's east and west halves
What is the Prime Meridian?
Location, Place, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, and Movement
What are the five themes of geography?
This is considered the oldest map in the world
What is the Babylonian clay tablet?
Element of a map that describes what a map is about
What is the title?
A two-dimensional graphic representation of selected parts of the earth's surface
What is a map?
The study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on the earth
What is geography?
Linear, Time, and Psychological: How geographers analyze movement
What are the three types of distance?
This type of reference map is used to see physical features of an area
What is a physical map?
What is a compass rose?
A way of mapping the earth's surface that reduces distortion caused by converting three dimensions into two dimensions
What is a map projected?
The exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found
What is absolute location?
Formal, Functional, and Perceptual are the three types of this geographic theme
What are the three types of regions?
General reference, thematic, and navigational are all this
What is types of maps?
Element of a map that tells you the distance on the map versus distance in real life
What is a scale?
A set of imaginary lines that go around the earth over the poles, dividing it east and west
What is longitude?
A set of imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator and that are used in locating places north or south
What is latitude?
Building a road to cross a river is an example of this geographic theme
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
A satellite that gathers weather information
What is GOES?
A map scale is 1 inch = 10 miles, and the distance between two cities is 3.5 inches, the two cities are this many miles apart
What is 35 miles?
Each half of the globe
What is a hemisphere?
Describes a place in relation to other places around it
What is relative location?
This building is about a block west of TJ's Quickstop
What is the relative location of Poplar High School?
What is GIS?
A map scale is 1 inch = 15 miles, two cities are 4 inches apart, so the cities are this many miles apart
What is 60 miles?