Map & Globe Terms
Big & Powerful Ideas
National Geography Standards- 6 broad elements
What is Geography?
100
On maps, legends define this process used often as a linear, graphic scale of inches to miles.
What is a scale?
100
A physical and relative location, but, even more so, a cultural, economic, political creation by people of landscapes, buildings, parks, schools, sites of worship, highways, and homes; things they want, believe in, need, and use.
What is place?
100
The study of Earth, as physical ecosystems, human environments, and the interactions between them.
What is geography?
200
Often shown through contour lines on a topographical map or by height on a 3-dimensinal plastic-molded maps.
What is elevation?
200
A natural setting on earth; a locale, region, country, or continent; represented by such things as maps, globes, and photographs; measured by distance, scale, or relief, and identified by coordinates, such as latitude and longitude.
What is space?
200
Geography includes not only subject matter but also includes these.
What are skills and perspectives?
300
Any location on Earth is desribed by two numbers that are represented by degrees.
What is Latitude and Longitude?
300
Landforms, such as mountains, plains, coastal regions, islands, and oceans; as well as specially preserved or protected areas, such as preserves or wetlands; and resources, such as oil, coal, iron, fertile soil, or fresh water.
What is geographic features?
300
Population, settlement, cooperation, and conflict are examples of this broad element.
What is human systems?
300
In the early 1900's, geography was perceived as this.
What is the mother of all sciences?
400
A transfer of information from a globe to a flat map.
What is a projection?
400
Seasons, climate, weather, water systems, as well as phenomena that result from them, such as floods, storms, and drought.
What is physical systems?
400
Looking at Earth in terms of its dimensions, directions, locations, and boundaries is this.
What is World in Spatial terms?
400
According to the National Geography Standards, geography is the study of this.
What is spatial aspects of human existence?
500
A likeness or image of something. Maps and globes are two examples.
What is a representation?
500
The interplay between people, places, and spaces. People use land: farming, developing cities, and constructing highways; they consume water, build dams, disrupt ecosystems, pollute air, replant forests, and landscape homes. In the process, people change their environments, for better or worse, over the short and long term
What is human-environment interaction?
500
Help students get from place to place, understand why people act as they do, and make decisions about the place we call home.
What are the uses of geography?
500
Geography is not the memorization of place names or features. Instead as in History Mystery, geography is this.
What is a sense of discovery about Earth as a physical space and human place?
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