Vocabulary
Map Skills
Themes of Geography
Geography
Misc.
100
Specific place on Earth.
What is Absolute Location?
100
Imaginary circles that run east and west on a map.
What is lines of latitude?
100

The type of geography of the earths physical features.

What is physical geography?

100
They are 2 types of locations that geographers use as reference points.
What is absolute and relative location?
100

 an area defined by people's shared feelings, attitudes, and cultural identities rather than by objective physical or political lines

What is Perceptual Region?

200
Half of a sphere of a globe.
What is Hemisphere?
200
Imaginary circles that run north and south on a map.
What is longitude?
200
The exact spot at which a place is found on the globe.
What is absolute location?
200

These people describe the physical and human features of the earth.

What are geographers?

200
The study of cities and how people live in them.
What is Urban Geography?
300
Areas that share common characteristics.
What is a region?
300
Earth's land surface is divided into seven large landmasses.
What is Continents?
300
Area united by specific characteristics.
What is regions?
300

a method of mapping points from a three-dimensional (3D) space onto a flat, two-dimensional (2D) surface


What is planar projection?

300
It divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
What is equator?
400

If I am traveling on foot hiking on a mountain what typ of map would be best for me?

What is Physical map?

400

3 types of maps projections?

What is conic, planar, cylindrical?

400
Particular space with physical and human meaning.
What is place?
400

the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of a sphere or globe

What is great circle route?

400
The relationship between people and their physical environment.
What is human environment interaction?
500
The science of making maps.
What is Cartography?
500
The place where all longitudinal lines meet in the north.
What is the North Pole?
500
Location, Place, Regions, Movement and Human Environment Interaction are ___________.
What is 5 Themes of Geography?
500

an individual's subjective perception and mental image of the geographic world around them 

What is Internal maps

500

Geographers study and aquire geographic information by direct observation or by using what process or devices?

What are remote sensing devices?

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