MAPS
You cannot use what 2 colours on a map...
What is White and Black
What are cardinal points on a compass?
N,E,S, W
Trends are...
The theme that studies the absolute and relative position on the Earth
Location
Your street address describes this kind of Location
Absolute Location
Showing the round Earth on these flat tools distorts some details
What is a Map
Human
What is Geography?
The theme that studies both human and physical locations and the features that exist in both.
What is a Place?
Lines that stretch from the North Pole to the South Pole
Lines of Longitude
This tool is one of the most important instruments for navigation
What is a Compass?
We use four categories to understand perspective.. what are they?
Study how the humans interact and influence the natural environment
Provinces: 10
Capital Cities: 3
The two main branches of Geography
Physical and Human Geography
Name two types of Maps
What is Physical, political, General purpose, topographic
Geographers use 3 questions to guide their research. What are they?
What is where?
Why There?
Why Care?
Branch of Geography that studies landforms, bodies of water, and other natural features
Physical Geography
What is 2 examples of interrelationships?
Human + Human
Human + Natural
Natural + Human
Natural + Natural
A field or science that studies people. It includes Human Geography. You're in one of these classes right now. Not History, but this is your _ _ _ _ _ _ studies.
Social Studies or social science
What are the 6 features of a Map?
What is Physical, political, General purpose, topographic
What are the four steps to converting time zones?
Find the location #1 - you know what time it is here
Find location #2 - you don’t know what time it is here
Count the time zones between #1 and #2 (i.e., there are 3 zones between Ontario and BC)
Decide if you’re going forwards in time (East) or backwards in time (West)
Count the hours difference (i.e., 5:00 in Ontario, backwards 3 hours, is 2:00 in BC)
What are 3 terms used to describe PATTERNS in geography?
What is Dispersed, Concentrated, Linear, Nucleated, Absent and Peripheral
What are the 4 Concepts of Geographic Thinking?
1. Spatial Significance
2. Patterns and Trends
3. Interrelationships
4. Geographic Perspectives
Lines that stretch from West to East
Lines of Latitude