Key Terms
What is the study of the human and nonhuman features of Earth?
Geography
Half of the Earth is called a __________?
Hemisphere
This tool shows how much space on the map represents a given distance on the land.
Scale Bar
Describes a place's exact position
Absolute Location
What would be the best way to tell someone your exact location?
Give them your exact lines of longitude and latitude lines.
Earth is almost a perfect ___________? (Shape)
Sphere
The distance east and west of the Prime Meridian is called?
longitude
This tool explains symbols and shading on a map.
Key
Location of a place relative to another place.
Relative location
What type of photographs do geographers use to look at Earth's surface and what type would you use more? Why?
Aerial Photographs
Satellite Photographs
What lines measure the distance north or south of the Equator?
Latitude
What type of map shows boundaries?
Political Map
A diagram of a compass showing direction.
Compass Rose
Region
How are maps different than globes?
Globes are not very portable and maps are.
Globes are in the shape of Earth and maps are flat and distorted.
What are latitude and longitude measured in?
Degrees
What map will show elevation?
Physical Map
Title
The mix of human and nonhuman features at any given location.
Place
What type of map would we use to find a new city as our home? How would we use it?
Use it to locate a new city
Look at boundaries
Use compass rose to see where we live
Physical and Political map
See our elevation
North, south, east, and west are called _________?
Cardinal Directions
What type of map would I use at Disney World to get around the park?
Special Purpose Map
Longitude and Latitude lines create an imaginary _____________ on the Earth.
Grid
The act of how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
Movement
What can you learn from the latitude and longitude lines on a map?
How far north and south you are from the Equator and how far east and west you are from the Prime Meridian. Gives us Absolute location.