Geographic Tools
The science, art, or business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock, farming
What is agriculture?
a symbol on a map that indicates cardinal directions (North, South, and West)
What is a Compass Rose?
The largest continent and home to the most populous countries
What is Asia
What is chronological order?
What is absolute location?
The long-term trends in weather elements and atmospheric conditions
What is climate?
maps that display natural features like mountains, rivers, and lakes
What are physical maps?
The coldest least populated region
What is Antarctica?
When a timeline shows two or more rows of events from a different perspective
What is a multiple tier timeline?
Learned behavior of people
What is culture?
The distance of a place north or south of Earth's equator
What is latitude?
maps that show boundaries of countries, states, and cities
What are political maps?
The second-largest continent and known for its vast deserts
What is Africa?
The word answers the question base on "where"
What is spatial?
A computer system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, and present many types of geographic data
What is GIS- geographic information system?
materials that come directly from nature that are used to produce goods and services
What are natural resources?
This imaginary line is located at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
Spanish and Portuguese are the dominant languages, and their economy is based on agriculture (coffee, bananas, sugarcane), mining and tourism.
What is South America?
The word answers the question based on "when"
What is temporal?
An area of Earth's surface defined based on shared characteristics
What is region?
The distance of a place east or west of Earth's prime meridian
What is longitude?
This imaginary line is located at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
known for its vast deserts, rainforests, and savannas as well as its diverse ethnic groups, languages and cultures
What is Africa?
People who make maps
What is a cartographer?
An attitude that favors some ideas or people over others
What is bias?