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Vocab
Location
Miscellaneous
GPS/GIS
Five Themes of Geo.
100

The study of the landforms and bodies of water of the earth and its physical processes

What is physical geography.

100

The exact place where a geographic feature is found

What is absolute location

100

Three dimensional representation of the earth

What is globe

100
Type of satellite that provides absolute location to the user.
What is GPS
100
Theme of geography that asks the question where is it?
What is location.
200

Mr. LIP

What is Five Themes of Geography

200

Each half of the globe is called? (imaginary line that divides the north and south halves)

What is hemisphere; equator

200
Mapmaker that reduces some types of distortion by using different types of map projections.
What is cartographer.
200

I help when you need to go from Texas to California.

What is GPS

200
Theme of geography that presents the question, what is it like?
What is place.
300

The study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features of the earth

What is Geography

300
Imaginary line dividing the earth east and west.
What is Prime Meridian.
300
Way of drawing the earths surface that reduces distortion caused by presenting a round earth on flat paper.
What is map projection.
300
Satellite that sotres information about the world in a digital database.
What is GIS.
300
Theme of geography that talks about how people relate to the physical world
What is human environment interaction
400

Greek word in which geography comes from.

What is Geographia

400
Lines that run parallel to equator; lines that run from pole to pole and mark the east and west positions of the hemisphere.
What is latitude; longitude
400
General Reference map that is a representation of natural and man made features on earth.
What is topographic map.
400

I am a computer program that processes information for google maps

What is GIS

400
Theme of geography that identifies how people, goods, and ideas move from one location to another.
What is movement.
500

How do geographers study the world?

What is... by looking at location, place, region, movement, and human-environment interaction.

500

Two dimensional representation of the earth.

What is a map

500

Three types of regions

What is formal, functional, perceptual.

500

Three satellites are used to get a more precise location.

What is triangulation?

500
Theme of geography that identifies how places are similar or different.
What is region.