Digital Citizenship
The tools of Geography
The Global Grid
Earth and the Sun
Maps
100
Using a paragraph from an online encyclopedia and changing a couple words and writing the same paragraph for your report is an example of this.
What is plagarism?
100
The location of a point in relation to another place.
What is relative location?
100
This measures the distance of a place from the equator.
What is latitude?
100
One round trip of the Earth around the sun is called this
What is a revolution?
100
Ice cap, chapparal, and desert are all examples of this
What is vegetation zone?
200
It is VERY important to explore this on any social media site that others may see, so that you can clearly select what is shared to the public and what is not.
What is privacy settings?
200
This is the part of the map that explains the symbols.
What is map legend/key?
200
The area between the tropic of Capricorn and the tropic of Cancer is like this all year.
What is warm all year long?
200
The areas between the Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle and the North and South poles.
What is polar zones?
200
The following climate zones are hot and dry all year, with very little rain.
What is Arid?
300
This term means that although something is copyright-protected it is okay to use it if you are writing a newspaper article about it and want to quote a story or use a scene from a move critique it for your journalism class, as long as you cite the source.
What is Fair Use?
300
This is used to indicate direction on a map.
What is a compass rose?
300
The equator divides the Earth into this.
What is northern and southern hemisphere?
300
These lie between the tropical and polar zones.
What is temperate zones?
300
A smaller river that flows into a larger river is called this
What is a tributary?
400
This is illegal to use without citation or legal purchase
What is intellectual property?
400
A system of imaginary lines on a map that show coordinates.
What is grid system?
400
This creates the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
400
These are reversed in the northern and southern hemispheres.
What are seasons?
400
Cartographers try to create flat maps which show Earth’s continents and oceans as accurately as possible from a global (spherical) surface area.
What is “projections” to reduce “distortion”?
500
This refers to people's emotions.
What is affective domain?
500
Explains how far a place is to another on a map.
What is map scale?
500
These mark absolute location.
What is latitude and longitude?
500
This creates the seasons.
What is the Earth's tilt?
500
The 5 themes.
What is Location, Cultural, Physical, Movement, Regions?