General 1
Most common tool used by geographers
Map
What are the five themes of geography?
1. Location
2. Place
3. Region
4. Human-environment
5. Movement
What's the difference in a map and a globe?
map - two dimensional of a selected area
globe - three dimensional of earth
What theme deals with how ideas, people, and things travel?
Movement
What is a cartographer?
mapmaker
What's a hemisphere?
the north and south halves of the earth, split at the center by the equator.
What theme answers "Where is it?"
Location
What theme answers "What is it like?" and includes physical and cultural characteristics?
Place
What theme asks "How are places similar or different?"
Region
What answers "How do people relate to the physical world?"
Human-Environment Interaction
What imaginary line splits the earth horizontal?
Equator
Name the two ways geographers describe location?
Absolute & Relative
An area of the earth’s surface with similar characteristics.
Region
What does a topographic map show?
physical land features of an area
What does a thematic map show?
specific types of information.
(politics, netflix shows)
What imaginary line splits the earth vertical?
Prime meridian
What are the 3 ways geographers categorize regions?
formal, functional, and perceptual.
What are the 3 types of movements geographers analyze?
linear, time, psychological
How is most mapping information gathered today?
Satellites. Landsat.
Name 3 keys that can be found on a map.
scale, compass rose, legend, title, labels, symbols
Is Vine better than TikTok?
Yes
Is Twitter better than Facebook?
Yes
What's the meaning of life?
There's no way you know the answer at 14.
The Office or Parks and Rec?
Parks and Rec. Don't @ me.
What is the difference in a physical map and a political map?
physical - landforms and bodies of water
political - countries, states, cities