Unit 2 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Longitude
A geaographic point on the earth that are imaginary lines drawn on the earth’s surface that specifies east and west on the earth’s surface.
parallels
They are lines of lattitude that wrap around the earth and cut the world in to pieces.
Meridians
are lines of longitude that run north to south and split the world in to east and west.
geographic grid
a grid of longitude and latitude lines around the earth.
How do geographers describe where things are?
To answer our key question, no point on the earth looks the same and no point has the same exact physical and human characteristics. We can tell where places are by using maps and by looking through absolute and relative location.
UTC, GMT
The starting point for universal time.
Standard deviation
The distance between each theoretical time zone and the deviation is the time zone difference, basically the applied manipulated time.
How often do we use standard deviation?
To define one of these terms time zones it is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes.
location
A particular place or position on the earth’s surface.
Place
refers to the physical aspects of a location and physical and human characteristics together.
Site
The relative location, to other things around it.
What are three ways to describe where things are?
Through relative and absolute location and through site and situation all to describe a place on the Earth.
Region
An area on the planet with a unifying characteristic and is a region.
Formal region
The basic characteristics of cities, districts, countries, and continents and is unified by a common political entry.
Functional Region
Usually accompanies a central point with defined boundaries and the area is all connected.
Vernacular
It is a distinctive region in which they are collectively considered themselves intertwined with each other through cultural similarities.
