Vocab 1
The location of one place in relation to another
What is Relative Location?
A region that is defined by its feelings and images.
What is perceptual region?
The two types of location geographers use as a reference point.
What is relative and absolute location?
The location of a place in relation to others.
What is relative location?
What is how do Geographers divide the Earth?
The Earth is divided into lines of longitude with the prime meridian in the middle, latitude with the equator in the middle, and four hemispheres.
Maps that use colors and symbols to show information related to a specific idea.
What is qualitative map?
A central place and the surrounding territory linked to it.
What is a functional region?
The part of map explains its symbols, colors, and lines.
What is the key?
Close-up, detail, distance, and direction is best shown on this.
What is a globe?
Why might Geographers be interested in learning about the history of an area?
To understand what places could have looked like in the past.
Maps showing movement of people, goods, and ideas using arrows.
What is flow-line map?
A region defined by a common characteristic
What is a formal region?
Satellite imagery is a form of this geographic research method.
What is Direct Observation?
Human-Environment Interaction
What is the name for the connections between people and their physical environment?
Why mapping is can benefit people?
Cartographers show location, features, patterns, and relationships of people, places, and things.
Another name for parallels
What is latitude?
Another name for mapmakers.
Cartography
Geographers study history of an area for..
What is to help determine what places looked like in the past?
Located at longitude 120E means...
What is located east of the prime meridian?
What helpful information would a geographer obtain by studying the economic activities of a particular area?
To understand how the location of resources affect the ways people make, transport, and use goods, and where services are provided.
A map that shows topography.
What is a physical map?
It is located at 0 degrees longitude.
What is Prime Meridian?
Geographers would likely to study population of density maps of two counties.
What is to determine which area has the greater needs for services?
Migrants entering a long-established society.
What is they will have no impact on the society?
Period one is Geography.
What is the subject of first period?