Key Terms 1
5 Geo. Themes
Key Terms 2
Science and Technology
Map's and Globes
100
-The study of Earth and all the ways people live and work on it. -A Places precise position on the globe.
What is Geography? What is Absolute Location?
100
What is location?
Where it is
100
-The differences in elevation or height of landforms in a particular location. -Physical maps that connect all points of land of equal elevation.
What is Relief? What are Contour Lines?
100
Satellites, Remote Sensors, and Computers are all this.
What are Technological Tools?
100
Projection based on the idea of wrapping a piece of paper around a globe to form a cylinder.
What is Mercator Projection?
200
-The two sides of earth that are cut by the equator. -The lines of longitude and latitude crossing one another.
What is Hemisphere? What is Grid System?
200
What is place?
What is it like?
200
-Maps that emphasize a single idea about an area. -The shortest possible distance between any two places on Earth's surface.
What are Special Purpose Maps? What is the Great Circle?
200
Satellites orbiting the Earth, taking pictures to collect information about the Earth's environment.
What is a observing the Earth?
200
Line located at 23 1/2 degrees North.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
300
-Imaginary lines that circle the earth. -Where people tend to think of places in relation to other places/things.
What is Longitude and Latitude? What is Relative Location?
300
What is human/environment interaction?
The relationship between people and their environment
300
-A way of representing the round Earth on a flat surface? -A convenient way of representing information visually.
What is a Map's Projection? What are Graphs?
300
Processing and organizing satellite images and other data collected through census, cartographers, and so on.
What is GIS?
300
Line located at 23 1/2 degrees South.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
400
-People who rely on each other for goods. -The way of life of people in different places.
What is Interdependent? What is Culture?
400
What is movement?
How people and places are connected
400
-Charts are useful tools that show facts arranged in columns and rows. -A way to present information in an organized way, providing easy access to data, and making comparisons easier to see.
What are Charts? What are Tables?
400
People who observe, hypothesize, and collect data to prove or disprove their theories.
What are Geographers?
400
Materials that are hazardous to living things, including Water and Air.
What is Pollution?
500
-A certain measurement of the map represents a certain measurement on Earths surface. -Maps that show a wide range of general information about an area. -A map that shows the physical features of Earth's surface.
What is Scale? What is the General Purpose of Maps? What is Topography?
500
What is region?
The sectioned off areas of the world based off of the themes
500
-Drawings that show what something is or how something's done.
What are Diagrams?
500
The study of relationships between the physical environment and social structure?
What is Sociology?
500
To change desert land into farm land.
What is Irrigation?
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