A Geographer's World Flashcards
The level of geography is why people live and work the way that they do.
Local
Example of Local geography
Rec center
The level of geography with one or more common features
regional
Why do we have to do things so slow and detailed?
- the world is huge
- studying a large land area is hard
- how people interact with each other
The level of geography that is the world
Global
Example of global geography
Imports and exports
Which level of geography is about finding people globally and building relationships with people far away?
Global
This branch of geography is the study of the world’s physical geographic features
Physical geography
Examples of physical geography
landforms, climate, bodies of water, soil, plants
This branch of geography is the study of the world’s human geographic features
Human geography
Examples of human geography
Peoples, communities, landscapes
This branch of geography is the study of maps and map making
Cartography
This branch of geography is about the about the study of water on Earth
Hydrology
This branch of geography is about the study of weather
Meteorology
This theme of geography is about absolute location
Location
Example of location:
Your address
General location =a name of a city
This theme of geography is about the area’s landscapes and features that define the area and make it unique
Place
Example of Place:
land, climate, people
This theme of geography is about environment interactions
Human
How people and their physcial environment effect other environments includes….
land, water, climate, plants, animals
This theme of geography is where geographers want to know how and why people move, roads, and routes to travel
Movement
This theme of geography likes to compare regions and why a place has developed as it has.
Regions
What are the 6 essential elements of geography?
World in speical terms Places and regions Physical systems Human systems Environment and society Uses of geography
North and South imaginary lines
Longitude
East and West imaginary lines
Latitude
Earth’s land surface divided into 7 large land masses
Continents
7 contients
Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, Antartica, North America, South America
5 oceans
Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Artic, and Indian
represents the distance between points on a map
Map scale
shows what the subject of a map is
Map title
Directional indicator that shows which way North, South, East, and West is
Compass rose
A politcal boundary
border
explains what the symbol on a map represents
map legend
contains the symbols on the map and shows what they mean
map key
the equator and prime meredian divides the world in halves
hemisphere
north, east, south, west
cardinal directions
northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest
intermediate directions
passes through the mid Pacific Ocean and roughly follows at 100 degrees longitutde north and south line
International date line
imaginary line that divides the world in east/west halves
Prime meredian
A smaller map on the same page that zooms on only one part
inset map
How parallels measure distance from the equator
degrees
a ball shaped model of the world and it’s continents
globe
a flat drawing that show all or a part of the world
map
This type of map projection is based on a cylinder wrapped around a globe
cydrical projections
This type of map projection is based on a cone over the globe
Comic projections
This type of map projection is based on a plane that’s touching the globe
flat-plane projections
the study of the world
Geography
all the human physical features that make a place unique
landscape
A field that studies people and their relationships among them
social science
a technology system that transmits information from satellites to earth giving the exact location of a given object on our planet
global positioning system (GPS)
technolgoy system that combines and provides geographic information from many different sources
geographic information system (GIS)
a pattern of imaginary lines that circle the globe in east west and north south directions
grid
a line of latitude
parallels
imaginary line that circles the globe halway between the north and south poles
equator
a unit of measurement of a globe’s surface that is part of a degree
minutes
a line of longitude
meredians
a method of showing our round planet on a flat map
map projections
represent the distance of points on a map
scale
shows where in the world the area on a map the area is located
locator map
This type of map shows the major political features of a region
Political map
This type of map shows the major physical features of a map.
Physical Map
This type of map focuses on one specific topic such as resources, climate, or population
Thematic Map
