Location
What is relative location?
Relative location describes where a place is compared to another place
What is Environment?
It is the natural surroundings of a place.
What is a region?
places that are close to each other and share the same characteristic belong to the same region.
What is climate ?
The average weather over a long period of time is called weather.
Prime meridian
it is the starting point for measuring longitude
environment includes
landforms, climate and resources
Why do people move from one place to another?
better job, war
What are the five themes that a geographer study?
location, region, place, human environment, movement
Equator cuts the earth into eastern hemisphere and southern hemisphere .True or false
False it cuts earth into north and south
Absolute location example
School
What is Landscape?
It is a portion of earth surface that can be viewed at one time and from one location
what is weather?
weather is the day-to-day condition
what are the elements of a map?
Map key, compass rose, Scale bar
Compass rose
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what do we use to find the exact location on earth?
we use lines of latitude and longitude
which one is more accurate maps or globes?
globes
What is GPS?
it is global positioning system
Which hemisphere describes your location?
Western hemisphere
What is a map scale ?
Map scale is the relationship between distances on the map and on earth