Technology
This was originally designed to detect icebergs.
What is sonar?
This is the exact position of anything on the globe.
What is absolute location?
Earth is widest here.
What is the equator?
Lines of latitude run this direction.
What is east and west?
A region consisting of a central place and the surrounding places affected by it are referred to as this.
What is a functional region?
This is used as a remote sensing technology.
What are satellites?
This is used to describe where a place is by comparing it to other places.
What is relative location?
The equator divides the world into two of these.
What are hemispheres?
Lines of longitude run this direction.
What is north and south?
A region that is defined by people's feelings and attitudes about areas is this.
What is a perceptual region?
This program was launched in 1999 and records images of the earth's surface, which are downloaded to computers.
What is the Landsat Program?
The character of a place consists of the places physical characteristics and this type of characteristics.
What is human?
All land and water between the equator and the North Pole is located in this hemisphere.
What is the Northern hemisphere?
Lines of longitude are also referred to as these.
What are meridians?
An area in which certain characteristics are found throughout is called this.
What is a formal region?
This system relies on a network of 24 satellites.
What is GPS?
Every place on the earth has features that are this to tell it apart from other places.
What is distinct?
Everything that lies between the equator and the South Pole is located in this hemisphere.
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
Meridians come together here.
What are the north and south poles?
The common elements of a region can be classified into these 2 types of characteristics.
What is physical or human characteristics?
This uses computer technology to collect, manipulate, analyze and display data about the earth's surface in order to solve geographic problems.
What is GIS?
Geography means this.
What is writing about or describing the earth?
These are the coordinates of the equator.
What is "0"?
This distance between meridians is greatest here.
What is the equator?
A region is defined as this.
What is a group of places with at least one common characteristic?