Vocab
What is the study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other?
What is Geography?
A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
What is a map?
Absolute and Relative
What is location?
Creator of map
What is a Cartographer?
What continent is directly South of Africa?
What is Antarctica?
What was developed in the early 1900s to detect icebergs and submarines?
What is Sonar?
A three-dimensional, spherical model of the Earth or another celestial body, such as a planet or moon, that shows the accurate distribution of its surface features, including continents, oceans, and political boundaries.
What is Globe?
Physical and human characteristics?
What is Place?
Shows the land forms
What is Physical map?
What is the only island continent?
What is Australia?
What is a places exact location called?
What is an Absolute Location?
A satellite-based navigation system that uses a network of orbiting satellites to provide precise location.
What is GPS?
Formal, Functional, and Perception
What is Regions?
Set to show a specific theme
What is Theometric map?
What is East of North American?
What is Europe?
What are the parallel lines to the equator called?
What is Latitude Lines?
A computer-based system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying geographically referenced data about the Earth's surface.
What is GIS?
People, Goods, and ideas move between places.
What is Movement?
Shows the number of people
What is a Population map?
What is North of Australia?
What is Asia?
What kind of characteristics are landforms, terrains, ecosystems, ecosystems, and climate?
What is Physical?
An artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication.
What is a Satellite?
How people use and respond to the environment.
What is Human Environmental.
Shows a birds eye view of an area
What is a Satellite map?
What direction is Washington state from Mississippi?
What is North-West?