Geography chap 1 tommorrow
General purpose map
Identify the type of map that shows a wide range of information about area.
Thematic map
Identify the type of map that shows specialized information about an area.
Spatial
This refers to earth's features in terms of their location, shapes, and relationships to one another
People and the world they live in mainly in terms of space and place
What are geographers most likely to study?
Landscapes
What are portions of Earth's surface that can be viewed at one time and from one location?
Land use
What human feature might be used to define a unique location on earth, or place?
Cartographer
What is another name for a mapmaker?
The average weather in a place over a long period of time
What is climate?
What height above or below sea level each color represents
What is the What would most likely be explained by the key on a elevation map?
Relief
What is the difference between the evevation of one feature and the evevation of another nearby feature?
Scale
What is the relationship between the distances on a map and on earth?
Equator
What is the starting point for measuring latitude?
Prime meridian
What is the starting point for measuring longitude?
Compass rose, north,west,south,east
What map feature shows the cardinal directions? What are the four cardinal directions?
Large scale map
What type of map would most likely show the location of your house and the nearby streets?
Specialized information for example:election results
What would the most likely shown on a map but not on a globe?
Geographers look at how people,products, ideas, and information move from one place to another
When dealing with the theme of movement, what do geographers look at?
Graphs
Which geographic tool is a visual display of numerical information
Latitude lines run east to west longitude lines run north to south
Which way do lines of latitude run? longitude lines?
Identify the broad patterns of large areas
Why do geographers study particular regions?
It doesn't disort physically
Why is a globe more accurate than a map
Places
what is the name for unique locations on earth that are defined by both physical and human characteristics?
Landforms
The shape and nature of the land is called what?