Themes & Tools of Geography
To draw or describe the earth.
What is geography?
Imaginary lines that run north and south or east and west along a globe or map.
What is longitude and latitude?
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion...over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:28)
What is the Creation Mandate?
What is an azimuthal projection?
There are two of these.
How many tools of geography are there?
This map has fairly accurate areas of land and water, as well as directions, but distortions come from the gaps.
What is the Gores projection?
The modern concept that teaches that all cultures are equally valid and no culture is better than another.
What is multiculturalism?
The line of latitude that runs around the middle of the earth.
What is the Equator?
There are five of these.
How many themes of geography are there?
This map is an interrupted projection; the areas and shapes less distorted, but all distances are distorted.
What is the Goode's projection?
There are five of these.
What are the themes of culture?
The line of longitude that runs around the middle of the earth and is designated 0°.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The Tools of Geography.
What are globes and maps?
Compass directions and shapes are accurate, but distances are distorted farther north or south.
What is the Mercator projection?
The effect of the Tower of Babel.
What is cultural diversity?
Another name for a mapmaker.
The themes of geography.
What are location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region?
This map minimizes all distortions and is popular in textbooks.
What is the Robinson projection?
The themes of culture.
What are religion, institutions, social groups, aesthetics, and physical environment?
The term that refers to the height and depth of land features in relation to surrounding land.
What is relief?