Basic geography Flashcards
What does geography studies?
Geography is a science that studies and describes the environment around us and helps us to know and understand it.
Espacio Geografico
The interaction between nature and society gives rise to space, a specific place and its relationship in the city.
Espacio geografico components
-Nature
-Social
-Economic
-Cultural
-Political
Cartographic representations
System of graphic representation that establishes an ordered relationship between the points of the curved surface of the earth and those of a flat surface.
What is a sketch? (croquis)
The sketch is a drawing that captures in a simplified form an image or some idea, they are made without the use of drawing instruments or measurements.
What is a plan (planos)
The plans offer a detailed description of the elements that conform them, they also use colors, symbols and drawings to distinguish them.
What is a map (mapa)
A map is the flat, reduced and simplified representation of the terrestrial surface or a part of it.
Terrestrial globe
Un globo terráqueo es un modelo tridimensional a escala de La Tierra, una representación de nuestro planeta, que se puede usar con fines didácticos o decorativos.
Satellite images
The satellite image is a photograph taken by an artificial satellite, which shows the geography of a specific territory, either a city, a country or a celestial body, or also some particular spectrum of electromagnetic waves, which is used in meteorology to determine weather phenomena
Aereal photographs
A perspective projection of a terrain area from an elevated center of projection, such that the points are offset and has a decreasing scale from nadir.
nucleo
es el centro o capa mas interna
meridianos
greenwich y ecuador
placas tectoncas
sonfragmentos de roca solida que conforman la litosfera
pq se mueven las placas tectonicas
la litosfera descansa sobre la astenosfera que es semi plastica mas calienre y debil por lo que se cree que algun tipo de sisrema de transferencia de calor dentro de la tierra procedenre del nucleo y del manto
sismo
serie de vibraciones de la superficie terrestre generadas por un movimiento brusco y repentino de las capas internas
