Vocab
The imaginary line dividing the earth east and west
What is the Prime Meridian?
The exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found
What is absolute location?
A weather satellite system that geographers use as a tool
What is GOES?
This element of a map explains the subject of the map
What is the title?
The imaginary line that separates the northern and southern hemisphere
What is the equator?
Each half of the globe
What is a hemisphere?
The question "How are places similar or different?"
What is region?
These help with mapmaking by providing geographer's accurate data
What are satellites?
A map that shows a large area but without much detail
What is a small scale map?
A three dimensional representation of the earth
What is a globe?
The study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on the earth
What is geography?
The three types of movement
What is linear, time, and psychological distance?
The three types of maps
What are thematic, navigational, and general reference?
One common map projection used in textbooks
What is the Robinson projection?
What is a topographic map?
Imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator
What are lines of latitude?
The five themes of geography include: location, place, region, movement, and...
What is human-environment interaction?
A tool that tells you exactly where you are on the earth's surface
What is GPS?
The three types of thematic maps
A series of satellites that orbit more than 100 miles above Earth
What is Landsat?
A mapmaker
What is a cartographer?
A type of region organized around a set of interactions and connections between places
What is a functional region?
Measuring and recording a specific area
What is surveying?
This element shows the ratio between a unit of length on the map and unit of distance on the earth
What is a scale?
A way of drawing the earth's surface that reduces distortion caused by presenting a round earth on flat paper.
What is a map projection?