Skills Flashcards
(22 cards)
What measures wind?
Anemometer
What measures air humidity?
Hygrometer
What is the blue dotted line?
low pressure trough
What is the blue spikey line?
Cold front
What is the red bumpy line?
Warm front
What are the black lines?
isobars
What does the H and L mean?
High and low pressure region
How do you know what direction a cold or warm front is moving?
It is the direction that the bumps/spikes are facing
What is a GIS?
- Geographic information system
- computer system that analyzes and displays geographic information
What is a clinometer?
instrument used for measuring angles of slope, elevation, or depression of an object
What is a barometer?
Device used to measure air pressure
What map is this?
Choropleth
What map is this?
Synoptic
What map is this?
cadastral
What map is this?
cartogram
What map is this?
topographic
What map is this?
Flowline
What map is this?
Précis
What are isoline maps used for?
To connect data points with the same value
What is the difference between isoline maps and synoptic charts?
- Synoptic charts are a type of isoline map
- Not all isoline maps are synoptic charts
In what order are urban hierarchies usually in?
Biggest to smallest
What are examples of a spatial technology tool?
- Google maps/Earth
- GIS
- GPS
- Any virtual maps/satellite images
