Vocabulary
The study of how physical geography impacts human activity and how human activity impacts physical geography
What is human geography?
This woman helped mapped ocean floors (which were previously thought to be smooth).
Who is Marie Tharp?
This term is used to refer to the conditions of earth being "just right" to sustain life.
What is a "Goldilocks" planet?
This is the name Martin Waldseemuller chose to call the "New World".
What is America?
Strabo said this, "defines the contours of the land and gives it its shape".
What is "the sea"?
In 1972, The Apollo crew captured this image after they left earth's orbit.
What is "The Blue Marble".
This wealthy greek man travelled widely and published a collection entitled "Geography".
Who is Strabo?
This is the term that every astronaut has reported from being deeply affected by looking back at the earth beneath them.
What is the Overview Effect?
This is the full name for GPS.
What is Global Positioning System?
This is the philosophy that Strabo adhered to.
What is Stoicism?
Alexander the Great founded this city of knowledge in Egypt sometime in the 300s B.C.
What is Alexandria
This Alexandrian librarian calculated the circumference of the Earth.
Who is Eratosthenes?
This is the percentage of Earth that is covered with water.
What is 71 percent?
This project plans to create a 3-D map of Earth using satellite imagery.
What is Google Earth?
This is the body of water that Pontus sat beside.
What is the Black Sea?
A seventeen-volume work which mostly covered the Mediterranean and European world during the times of Augustus, Christ, and the early church.
What is Strabo's "Geography"?
This German-born mapmaker published Vespucci's account of his voyages to the New World.
This is the moving of the plates in the earth's crust and outer mantle.
What is plate tectonics?
This negotiator insisted that the United States extended to the Mississippi River.
Who is John Jay?
These two other areas of study are connected to the knowledge of Geography according to Strabo.
What is Meteorology and Geography?
According to Strabo, this is "essential to all the transactions of statesman".
What is Geography?
Strabo considered this person to be the "father to all geography".
Who is Homer?
This is the approximate distance between the moon and the earth.
What is 240,000 miles?
This man invented the term Geography.
Who is Eratosthenes?
This first century Jewish writer referred to Strabo.
Who is Josephus?