History of Geography
This Greek scholar coined the name "geography" from "geo" and "graphein", meaning "to write" about "the earth".
Who is Erathostenes?
The art, science and technology of making maps.
What is cartography?
The arrangement of things on the earth's surface.
What is spatial pattern?
The full name of the acronym GIS.
What is geographic information systems?
This subfield of geography addresses economics, demographics, politics, and culture.
What is human geography?
This german explorer of the 1700s/1800s is known as the father of physical geography and studied climate, plants and volcanoes and peoples around the world.
Who is Alexander von Humboldt?
Tells you how far north or south of the equator you are.
What is latitude?
All points on this are at the same elevation.
What is a contour line?
Technology used to measure the earth without being in contact with it and using electomagnetic radation to assess the earth's surface.
What is remote sensing?
A geographer who studies landslides or river bank erosion, or climate or ecosystems in in what subfield of geography?
What is physical geography?
This greek scholar of about 64 BC to 20 A.D. developed geography and said its task was to describe the world and "treat the differences between countries".
Who is Strabo?
Imaginary line that runs through Greenwich, London, England.
What is the Prime Meridian, or 0 degrees longitude.
The way the curved surface of the globe is represented on a flat map.
What is a map projection?
Your phone or a handheld device to use with GPS?
What is a receiver?
The phrases "back east" or "down south" are example s of this core geographic concept.
What is relative direction?
This Greek scholar developed a system of latitude and longitude, even before the Dark Ages, when the prevailing idea was the earth was flat.
Who is Ptolemy?
Type of maps that incorporates symbols or varying size to denote magnitude of something.
What is a graduated circle (or symbol) map?
Everything is related to everything else, but relationships are stronger when things are nearer one another.
What is Tobler's First Law of Geography.
GPS, GLONASS and Beidou and Galileo are examples.
What is GPS?
This indicates degree of generalization, or tells us the relationship between size of an area on a map and its actual size on the surface of the earth.
What is scale?
This greek scholar made a close estimate of the circumference of the earth.
Who is Erathosthenes?
1:100,000 on a map.
What is a ratio scale?
Refers to the relations between a place and another place.
What is "situation"?
This mapping technology uses laser.
What is Lidar?
Regions that exist in the in the perceptions of their inhabitants and the general society.
What are perceptual or vernacular regions?