Geography chap 1 tommorrow

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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?


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