Direction

Question 1

What is Geography?

Answer 1

Geography; looks at places and regions of the world:

• Surface of the earth
• Ways that people live in a given space
• How humans adapt to surroundings

Question 2

What is Direction?

Answer 2

• Cardinal Directions: N, E, S, and W
• Intermediate Points: NE, NW, SE, SW
• Sun rises in the East, sets in the West

Question 3

What is a magnetic compass?

Answer 3

• Is divided into 360° (Degrees)
• North = 0°, South = 180°, East = 90°, West = 270°
• Magnetic North (where the needle points is a few degrees west of True North