Geo #0
What is the Equator?
This imaginary line at 0° latitude divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is a cartographer?
Someone who creates maps.
What is a functional region?
This type of region is organized around a central point or hub, such as the area served by a major city or a radio station.
Tell me 1 thing you have learned in this class?
Answers will vary.
What is Asia?
This continent is where the Great Wall of China and the Himalayan mountain range are located.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This line at 0° longitude runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and passes through Greenwich, England.
What is geography?
This term describes the study of the Earth’s physical features and the human activity that affects them.
What is a formal region?
This type of region is defined by official boundaries, such as cities, states, or countries.
Name 1 of the Oceans on the map?
Pacific, India, Southern, Atlantic, etc.
What is Africa?
This continent is known for its diverse cultures and languages, with over 50 countries and thousands of ethnic groups.
What is absolute location?
This term refers to the exact position of a place on Earth, often given in degrees of latitude and longitude.
what is a compass rose
This term refers to a map's feature that shows directions and includes North, South, East, and West.
What is the scale?
This element of a map shows the relationship between a distance on the map and the actual distance on the ground.
What is the Winkel Tripel projection?
This projection is often used for thematic and educational purposes because it attempts to balance distortions in size, shape, distance, and direction.
What is Antarctica?
This continent is the only one to be covered almost entirely by ice.
What is northeast?
This compass direction is found halfway between north and east.
What is a formal region?
This type of region is defined by the official boundaries, such as cities, states, and countries.
What is the Robinson projection?
This map projection, often used for world maps, displays the entire Earth with minimal distortion of continents, but slightly distorts the poles.
What is South America?
This continent is home to the Amazon rainforest and the Andes mountains.
what is a ring of fire?
an area that has active earthquakes and lots of movement for the earth's plates.
What are lines of latitude?
These lines run parallel to the Equator and measure distances north or south of it.
What is a perceptual region?
This type of region is based on people’s perceptions or feelings about an area, such as "the South" in the United States.
What is the Mercator projection?
This projection is known for preserving the true direction, making it useful for navigation, but it distorts the size of landmasses, especially near the poles.
What is Australia?
This continent is the smallest by land area and is also a country.
What is North America?
A continent where United States, Canada, and Mexico are located.
Name one mountain for North America?
Describe some of things that go with Human Interaction Environment ?
culture, customs, people/human and their lives.
What is deforestation?
This term describes the clearing of forests by humans for agriculture, which can lead to habitat loss and changes in climate.
What is a dam?
The construction of this large structure across rivers by humans is used to control water flow, generate electricity, but can also disrupt local ecosystems.
Why do humans leave their environment?
adaptation (to adapt), modification, or by choice.