Geography
The study of the physical features of the Earth, including how humans affect the Earth and are affected by it.
What is Geography?
This theme is the exchange of people, goods & ideas around the world
What is Movement
This is the making of, and study of Maps
What is Cartography?
This kind of map shows man-made boundaries like cities, states and countries
What is a Political Map?
This is what happens to a map projection when the shape, area, distance and direction of some features appear different from reality
What is Distortion?
Physical Aspects of the Earth such as the layers of the planet, vegetation, landforms and the waters
What is Physical Geography?
This theme tells where a point is on the Earth’s surface
What is Location?
This ancient Philosopher was one of the first notable cartographers and theorized that the Earth was a sphere
Who is Aristotle?
This is a half of the earth, usually divided into Northern and Southern halves by the equator, or Western and Eastern halves by the Prime Meridian
What are Hemispheres?
The representation of the Earth on a flat surface
What is Map Projection?
How humans have affected the physical aspects of the planet and how humans have been affected by the physical arrangements of Earth
What is Human Geography?
This is the relationship between people and their environment; how people adapt to the environment and how they change it.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This is the box or portion of the map that explains or describes the different symbols on a map
What is a Key or a Legend?
Imaginary horizontal lines that measure distance north and south of the Equator
What is Latitude?
The first company to use paper money
What is China? Tang Dynasty in the 7th century
Understanding the arrangement of objects across space
What is Spatial Thinking?
This theme describes Places that are united by shared characteristics like landforms, climate, languages/accents, politics and religion
What is Region
This is a tool that measures the relationship between the distance of locations on the map and the distance of locations in real life
What is a Scale?
Imaginary vertical lines that measure distance east and west of the Prime Meridian.
What is Longitude?
This is the longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
What we call similarities between places
What is Geographic Patterns?
This theme is the description of what a place looks like; a “snapshot” or “postcard” of a location
What is Place?
This is the major line of longitude, is measured at 0° and runs through Greenwich, United Kingdom
What is Prime Meridian?
This Map Projection has one of the lowest levels of distortion and has been used by National Geographic as its standard world map projection since 1998
What is Winkel Tripel Projection?
This would happen if the Earth stopped moving
What is, Everything would go flying at 994 mph sideways, people, buildings, the oceans. It would be bad but thankfully this isn't possible but the answer is it would be a crazy day cause everything would go flying!