Movement
What are Geographers interested in with movement?
How people, goods, and ideas move place to place.
What is a region?
An area of earth's surface with similar characteristics.
What is a mapmaker called?
Cartographer
What is a Landsat Satellite?
Orbits the Earth.
What is absolute location?
Exact place on earth.
How many types of movement?
3
What factors in to declaring a region?
Physical, political, economic or cultural characteristics.
What is a problem with maps?
What does GOES stand for?
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
What is relative location?
Describes a place in comparison to others around it.
What is linear distance?
How far across the earth, a person, idea, or product travels.
What are formal regions?
Defined by a limited number of related characteristics.
What is map projection?
Drawing the earth's surface, by representing a round earth on flat paper.
What is the GOES Satellite?
Weather satellite, gather images of atmospheric pressure and conditions.
What is the equator?
Line that divides the north and south halves.
What is time distance?
Amount of time it takes for a person, idea, or a product to travel.
What are Functional Regions?
Organized around a set of interactions and connections between places.
Who uses Navigation maps?
What is Navstars?
Series of 30 satellites.
What are latitude lines?
Parallel to the equator
What is psychological distance?
How people view distance.
What are perceptual regions?
How people see a region as the same.
What is a general-reference map?
Represents natural and man-made features.
How many days does it take for Landsat to orbit the earth?
16
What are longitude lines?
Go around the earth.