Vocabulary
A computer-based system for creating maps and analyzing patterns.
What is Geographic Information Systems or GPS.
Explains how people, animals and things move from one place to another.
What is movement?
The study of earth and its physical features.
What is geography.
This is the preferred projection of the National Geographic Society since 1998.
What is Winkel Tripel Projection
Focuses on a specific topic or theme
What is thematic map?
Tells where something is located. Absolute location is the exact point where something is located based on longitude and latitude.
What is location?
The height of a physical feature above sea level.
What is elevation?
This projection shows directions accurately but distorts shapes often used for polar regions.
What is the azimuthal projection.
Mapmakers create different kinds of maps in order to show physical features of geography on the different maps.
What are cartographers?
Include the characteristics of a location.
What is place?
Shows how much distance on Earth is shown on a map.
What is a map's scale.
Resembles a flattened peel of an orange. Accurately shows the shape and area of landmasses by cutting up the oceans.
What is the homolosine projection.
Imaginary Lines that run east to west parallel to the equator.
What is latitude?
Involves a group of several places that have something in common.
What is region.
Changes on a map to the shape, area or direction of a place.
What is distort?
Shows the shape and area of the continents and oceans with reasonable accuracy. However, the North and South Pole are distorted.
What is the Robinson Projection.
Thinking about the space on Earth's surface.
What is Spatial Thinking ?
Explains how people affect the environment and how the environment affects people.
What is Human Environment Interaction
A way of showing Earth curved surface on a flat map.
What is projection.
This projection is good for navigation but distorts the shape and area near the North and South Pole.
What is the Mercator Projection?