Secrets of a Map
What type of map shows natural features?
Physical Map
What is geography sometimes called?
Social Science
An address is an example of what kind of location?
Absolute location
What are two types of characteristics geographer's study?
Physical and human characteristics.
What are the cardinal directions?
North, east, south, & west.
What type of map shows the way humans have impacted the landscape?
Political Map
What are the three ways geographers look at the world?
Local, regional, and global.
Which theme refers to an area's landscape?
Place
What are the vertical lines on a map called?
Longitude
What is the equator?
The most important line of latitude.
Which map projection has straight latitude and longitude lines on it?
Mercator Projections
Why are maps, globes, and satellite images so important to geographers?
They are tools they use to study the world.
Ancient civilizations often settled near rivers to grow crops. This is an example of which of the 5 themes?
Human-Environment Interaction
What are the three types of maps we learned about on day 1?
1. Political
2.Physical
3. Thematic
What is meteorology?
The study of the weather and what causes it.
What is a scale used for on a map?
To measure distance
________________is the study of the world, its people, and the landscape they create.
Geography
Geographers studied ancient times, and seen that humans often moved in order to follow their food. Which theme of geography is an example of?
Movement
Name all 7 continents:
1. North America 2. South America 3. Asia 4. Africa 5. Europe 6. Antarctica 7. Australia
"Canada is north of the United States of America". This is an example of what kind of location?
Relative location.
Which map projection in best used for navigations?
Mercator
What happens when map creators try to put the globe on a flat surface?
It becomes distorted.
What did geographers create to make it easier to compare place?
Regions
What is the most important line of longitude?
The prime meridian.
What are the intermediate directions?
Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest.