pax test
The study of the physical and landscaped of Earth.
Geography
How and where we live
human geography
What planet Earth is like
Physical Geography
tools geographers use
Maps, GIS, remote sensing and other forms of spatial data and images
What are the diffrences between physical and human characteristics
Physical is natural features, natural disasters, and acid rain and greenhouses gases.
what is enviormental geography
How we affect our surroundings
A person who makes maps
Who is a cartographer?
What is absoulute location, relative location, lattitude and logitude
Absoulute location is exactley where something is.
Describe the prime meridian, equator, tropic of cancer, tropic of capricorn, artic circle, , antartic circle, and international date line on a map?
The prime meridian is in greenwich england. The equator is the line that goes across the center of the earth. The tropic of cancer is north of the equator, in between the Artic and the equator. The tropic of capricorn is south of the equator in between antartica and the equatpr. The artic and antartic circle are at very most north and south equator. The international date line runs between north and south of the poles. Everything mentioned here is an imaginary line.
How do you find absoloute location using lattitude and longitude?
To find the lattitude, you trace the place you want to finds lattitude number on the east/west side. Then, you find the longitude on the south/north side.
What is interdependence?
Name of the meaurment used to find absoulote location
How are lattitude and longitude messured?
Because the globe is a sphere, and there is 360 degrees in a sphere, there is 360 degrees of latitude. Lattitude is only 180 degrees, which is half of a sphere
What is the name of measurment used to find for precise location?
Absouloute location
What lines are used to distinguish the 4 hemispehers
Longitude and lattitude lines
What is a map projection?
an attempt of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface.
What are the cardinal and intermidiete directions?
Cardinal: North, South, East, West. Intermedite: Northwest, Northeast, southwest, southeast, easetwest, eastnorth, southwest, southeast.
What do you use to find distances on a map?
The map scale bar
What is a compass, legend, and map scale used for?
The compass is used to tell your north, east, south and west. The legend is to see what stuff like the mountains and rivers are, and the map scale to see distances between locations.
bay
part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline.
Canyon
a deep, narrow valley with steep walls.
Ape
point of a land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean. Coast- land along a sea or an ocean.
Delta
flat, low, land built up from rhe soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth.
Gulf
part of a body of water completley surrounded by water.
Island
body of land completley surrounded by water.
Isthumus
narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas
Lake
connecting two larger land areas. Lake - body of water completley sourounded by land; ussualy fresh water
Mountain
land with steep sodes that rise sharply from the sorounding land.
mouth of river
place where a river empties into a larger body of water
Peninsula
body of land jutting into a laks or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water
Plateau
area of flat or rolling land, ussualy at aboyt 300 to 3,000 feet high.
Plain
area of land ussualy at low elavation and often covered with grasses.
River
large natural stream of water that flows through land
Tributary
small stream or river that flows into a large stream or river.
Valley
low land between the mountains.
What is a physical map?
a map that shows landforms, bodies of water, and other natural features.
What is a relief map?
physical maps that show specific changes in elevation.
What is a political map?
A political globe or map shows the location of countries, states, cities etc.
What is a special-purpose map?
a map that shows themes or patterns such as climate, natural resources, or population
What are the six uses of a map?
To indicate distances, to show distances, to show location, to indicate locations, to sorm correct conceptd of location, to show important data.
What is the diffence between a map and a globe?
A map is inaccurate, but a globe is accurate.
What is a cartogram
Cartogram presents the area of a given feature proportional to something else; distorting the size of the map
What is the purpose of time zones?
Because every 1,000 miles the sun comes out at diffrent times. It would be uncanny if it was 12:00am in tokoyo but still light out.
How many timezones are there
24
How do you lose/gain a day when you pass the IDL?
understanding time zones
What does GIS and GPS mean?
Geographic Information Systems, Global Positioning System. (Undertsnaidng GPS and GIS)
What does GPS do?
a network of satellites that continuously transmit coded info which makes it possibly to precisely identify locations on earth by measuring distance from the satellites.
What does gis do
combines computer data
What causes the seasons
The tilt of the Earth's axis
How are seasons in the northern hemisphere diffrent from those in the south?
Because of the earths inderect/direct sunlight, they switch seasons.
Explain how the sun effects seasons
Because the earth is on an axis and revolving around the sun the Sun always hits one part of the earth directly (except the equator, its always hitting the equator.) because its hitting one psrt of the earth, that part pf the earth becomes hotter.