Unit 1 Flashcards
(28 cards)
What are the 5 major themes of Geography?
Movement, Human-Eviromental, Reagin, Location, Place
What does absolute location do?
Shows you the EXACT location.
What does relative Location do?
Shows you locations RELATED to it.
Orientation
Directional indicator indentifies map orientation. (Compass)
Hemisphere
Half of the earth
Scale
Area can be repersented by using a raity of scales.
Ladituse lines measure what?
North and south
Longitude ines measure what?
East and west
The middle laditude line is?
Equater
The middle longitude line is?
Prime meridian
A mercator map can be used by?
Ship navigator
Unique characteristics about mercator
Has lots of laditude and longitude lines.
You can find Robinson map in a?
Classrooms.
Unique characteristics about Robinson map
They are less disorontited than others
Polar maps are used by ?
Pilots
Unique characteristics about polar maps
You can only see ONE hemisphere
Globes can be used by ?
Teachers
Unique characteristics about globes
Its very accurate and its 3D
What type of info can be found on a thermatic map?
Population, Sickness, Animal life
What aspects of the earth can be distorted when projectig our round world into a flat map?
Cities or countries can be made bigger or smaller.
What are some reasons maps change over time?
More land or water appered over time.
Location
¨Where is it?¨
Place
¨What is it like?¨
Region
¨How are places similar or different?¨
