What is Geography?
The word comes from two roots meaning "earth" and "written description"
What is Geography?
The earth is divided into two of these
What are hemispheres?
What is distortion?
Used in relief maps, these indicate a location's elevation.
What are benchmarks?
Who is Eratosthenes?
The two types of geography
What is Human and Physical?
Imaginary lines that runs east and west
What is latitude?
Published in 1569. This was the first important cylindrical projection.
What is Mercator?
What is a relief or physical map?
A famous Roman geographer who promoted the geocentric theory
Who is Ptolemy?
One of the 5 themes of Geography, this can be defined as absolute or relative
What is Location?
Imaginary lines that run north and south
What is longitude?
This projection has several popular variations, including a map that cuts and flattens the earth like an orange peel. It may sometimes interrupt you.
What is Goode's?
Lines that separate colors on a relief map.
What are contour lines?
Promoted the heliocentric theory.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
States that sun, stars and planets revolve around the earth
What is geocentric theory?
0 degrees latitude
What is equator?
This projection is popular for textbooks.
What is Robinson's?
Used to make modern maps.
The first known ancient people to study the earth extensively
Who are the Greeks?
What is Place?
This game uses the geographic grid to defeat an opponent
What is battleship?
These are used extensively by travelers, whether they are military commanders, professional truckers, or families going on vacation.
What is a roadmap?
Shows what something on a map means
What is a legend?
Made it easier to locate places on a map by perfecting the grid.
Who is Hipparchus?