Vocab
Maps
Other Geography
Extra points: History?!?
Rules!
100
Main area, commercial focus, urban, city, industrial
Core
100
Can maps be critiqued?
YES
100
Can laptops go home????
NO
200
Rural, not the city, where resources are produced or harvested, sparsely populated
Hinterland/periphery
200
These are under your feet, and make landscape features!
Tectonic plates
200
School is for this first.
Learning!
300
Turn by the gas station down at the corner.
Relative location
300
Questions geographers answer
Where and why?
300
They practiced a complex funerary tradition, including mummification!
Egypt!!
300
Who is responsible for your laptop??
YOU
400
Coordinates
Absolute location
400
The problem with map projections:
Distorts area, shape, distance, and direction
400
This field deals with language, religion, culture, and other human activity
Human Geography
400
He spread the Greek culture over the known world! (At least, what he thought was the known world)
Alexander the Great
500
The basis of society!!!!
TRUST
500
This map projection!
Mercator projection
500
Compare the core vs periphery
Core: cities, urban, commerce!
Periphery: rural, hinterland, farms, resources, not very populated
500
People in this area made the concept of zero!
India