Six Elements
Hemispheres
Vocabulary
Maps
Projections
100
knowing where the places are
What is location?
100
the earth is divided into 4
What is hemispheres?
100
a round scale model of the earth
What is globe?
100
measuring line
What is the scale bar?
100
ways of showing the earth on a flat piece of paper
What is projections?
200
how people have shaped the world
What is human systems?
200
main latitude
What is the equator?
200
GPS
What is Global Positioning System?
200
shows the names and boundaries of countries
What is political maps?
200
looks like a peeled flattened orange
What is Goode's Interrupted Equal-Area projection?
300
such as hurricanes, volcanoes and glaciers
What is physical systems?
300
system form by lines of latitutes and longitudes
What is grid system?
300
mapmakers
What is cartographers?
300
uses colors to show population density, or other ranges of information about a place
What is special purpose maps?
300
the areas most distorted on this projection are near the poles.
What is Robinson projection?
400
The study of the earth and all that involves it
What is Geography?
400
line that is located 180 degrees from the prime meridian
What is the international time line?
400
GIS
What is geographic information systems?
400
explains the lines, symbols, and colors used on a map
What is map key?
400
gives a good overall view of the continents shapes and sizes
What is Winkel Tripel projection?
500
location, place, human/environmentinteraction, movement, regions.
What is five themes of Geography?
500
maximum degree in a latitude
What is 90 degrees?
500
precise spot where one longitude and one latitude crosses
What is absolute location?
500
show a wide range of general information about an area
What is general purpose map?
500
imaginary line that follows the curve of the earth
What is the great circle?
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