Dazzling Definitions
Average weather conditions of a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The part of a map which tells the four cardinal directions (North, South, East, West).
What is a compass rows?
The transfer of people, products, ideas, & information from one location to another.
What is movement?
These can show the changes in the shape of the land.
What are satellite images?
0° line of latitude that divides the earth into Northern & southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
A flat representation of the Earth which distorts reality.
What is a map?
This theme defines location by both physical and human characteristics.
What is place?
The Earth's features which describe the shape or nature of the land, i.e., mountains, plains.
What are landforms?
0° line of longitude that divides the earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
These lines run North to South on a map, but measure East & West of the Prime Meridian.
What are lines of longitude?
2 ways that humans affect the environment.
What are pollution, litter, tree removal?
A map tool which shows the relationship between distances on the map and on the Earth.
What is a scale?
Portions of the Earth's surface that can be viewed at one time.
What are landscapes?
These lines run East to West, but measure North & South of the Equator.
What are lines of latitude?
2 ways in which the environment affects humans.
What are weather, pollution?
A type of map which shows a smaller area of land in greater detail, i.e., neighborhood map, hiking map...
What is a large-scale map?
A term regarding Earth's features in reference to their locations, shapes, & relationships to one another.
What is spatially / spatial?
A type of map that measures height above and below sea level.
What is an elevation map?
2 reasons why globes are more accurate than maps.
What are round in shape like Earth & more accurate representations of land and water shapes?
This term describes the difference between the elevation of differing nearby features.
What is relief?