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The study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on the earth
Geography
What are the methods used by geographer
Maps, photographs, scale models, the five themes of geography
What is the kind of map is shown
Heat Sensing Scan
What are the Five Themes of Geography
1. Location 2. Place 3. Region 4. Movement 5. Human/ Environment Interaction
Line that go around the earth over the poles
Longitude
It describes how a place is related to its surrounding environment
Relative Location
The exact place where a geographic feature is found
Absolute location
Each half of the globe
Hemisphere
Imaginary line that divides the east and west halves the earth
Prime meridian
Two-dimensional graphic representations of selected parts of the earth’s surface cartographer a mapmaker
Map
A way of drawing the earth’s surface that reduces the distortion caused by converting three dimensions to two dimensions
Map projection
A system that uses digital map information to create a databank to produce specialized maps
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
A representation of natural and man-made features on earth Landsat a series of satellites that can photograph the entire earth in 16 days
Topographic map
What would you use the GPS for ?
Locating objects
True or False: Advantage of the globe is that it is a three- dimensional and so shows the earth as it sits in space.
True
True or False: advantage of the map is that distortion occurs when a three-dimensional image is converted to two dimensions.
False
