Geo. Basics
Invisible line separating northern & southern hemispheres
What is the equator?
Shows directions, north, south, east and west on a map
What is the compass or compass rose?
Total knowledge, attitudes, & behaviors shared & passed on by members of a group
What is culture?
Map projection with flattened poles and least distortion; used in textbooks
What is Robinson?
Condition of atmosphere at a location
What is weather?
An exact "global address;" latitude and longitude.
What is Absolute Location?
Shows the ratio of distance and unit of length on a map
What is the scale?
Spread of ideas, inventions, or behavior
What is diffusion?
Maps that show features on earth that are human created (ex- city boundaries)
What is political map?
Natural features on earth
What is a landform?
Study of the distribution & interaction of physical & human features on the earth
What is geography?
Lines that run parallel to the equator (horizontal) and lines that run from pole to pole (vertical)
What are lines of latitude and longitude?
When a society changes after accepting innovations
What is acculturation?
Map that shows large area and zoomed in detail
What is a small scale map?
Latitude, elevation and wind & ocean currents are factors that effect this
What is climate?
Describes a place in relation to other places
What is relative location?
Line that runs through Greewich, England,(at 0 degrees) separating east and west hemispheres
What is Prime Meridian?
Religion that worships one god and religion that worships many gods
What is monotheism and polytheism?
Maps that show what types of things can be grown, harvested, or mined in an area; helps determine economics in that area
What are natural resource maps?
The weather at a location over a long period of time
What is climate?
5 themes of geography
What are place, location, human-environment interaction and movement ?
Explains the use of colors and symbols on a map
What is the legend?
Movement of people from one area to another and the factors that cause this movement
What is migration and push/pull factors?
What is a physical map?
Birth rate, mortality rate, fertility rate are all part of what type of geography
What is popuation?