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What does GPS stand for?
What is Global Positioning System
List the 5 themes of Geography?
Location
Place
Movement
Regions
HEI-Human and Environmental Interaction
The geographic grid the basis for
Time Zones
Who was the 1st person to share that the Earth was a sphere (not flat)?
Aristotle
What are 3 properties of DISTRIBUTION?
Pattern, concentration, density
What are the two types of geography?
Human
Physical
Name some items in HUMAN Geography?
Man-made-building bridges....
Name some PHYSICAL characteristics of Geography
Natural-rivers, mountains, trees, rivers
What is a FORMAL region?
everyone share in common one or more distinctive characteristics
Why do chains, fast food and retail stores deliberately have a visual appearance that changes very little?
So they are recognized where ever they are
We use maps to show PLACES...what do we mean?
To find the location of something.
What do we mean when we say Regions?
Different areas of Earth- Midwest, South....
What is a function region?
an area organized around a node or focal point
What is a MERIDIAN?
an arc drawn between North and South poles
The book Travels was based on....
A guy's travels for over 30 years.
What is a vernacular region?
an area people live as part of the cultural identity
Name 2 of the 4 things places are named after.
People, religion, history, earlier occupants
In the Year 267, the first elaborate map was made of what country?
China
What helps with Geographic studies?
Satellite imagery
What does a GPS do?
determines the exact position of something
Names the 5 THEMES of geography
Location, Place, Movement, Regions, HEI-Human and Environmental Interaction
What is Scale?
The relationship between the portion of Earth being studies and Earth as a whole?
What are types of regions?
Functional, Formal, Vernacular
Give an example of "situation?"
Caribou is by McDonalds, my house is east of Porterhouse
What is a toponym?
A name given to a place on Earth