Geography Flashcards
What is Geography
the study of the earths places, people, environments, and societies
What is the map and what are the five basic features to a map?
A map is a simplified representation of the earths features down on a flat surface. The five elements of a map is the title, direction, legend, border and scale. 
What is the difference between large scale and small scale maps?
Large scale maps show a large amount of detail in a small area and small scale maps show a small amount of detail in a large area. 
What is the difference between a topographic, thematic, and general purpose map?
Topographic maps provide detailed information necessary for navigation/orientation (elevation(contour, lines) grid system, natural and human made features). Thematic maps provide information about one particular, detail, theme, and or idea. General purpose, maps provide a variety of details such as roads, bodies of water, parks, towns, and cities. Gives abroad understanding of the location and features of an area.
What are the Mercator,Robinson and Mollweide projections?
The Mercator, Robinson, and Mollweide projections are different variations of the world map representation 
What is the Mercator projection and what is its distortions?
The Mercator projection is usually seen in the shape of a rectangle; some distortions is that close to the polls. The landmasses are very large (including Greenland, Canada, Alaska, northern Europe, and Antarctica).Landmasses in the middle look very small in comparison(south America,and or Africa)
What are the Mollweide projections and what is its distortions?
The Mollweide projection is usually seen in the shape of an oval; some distortions is the shape of the landmasses or distorted. North America, Asia, and Australia are flattened on the diagonal.
What are the Robinson projections and some of its distortions
The Robinson rejections shape is a mix of the two with oval Lakes sides in a flat top and bottom. Some distortions is that Antarctica looks very large. Greenland looks flattened north to south.
Maps, scale conversions-know the three different types of scales
Derek statement-written in words
Linear scale - 1cm represents ___km
Representative fraction -written in centimetres as a ratio
How to convert and find actual distance for a map scales
• to convert KM to CM—> X 100,000
• to convert CM to KM—>/100,000
• to convert a real life distance—> Take your scale in kilometres and them measure of the total amount on your linear scale then multiply them to get your total KM
No, your compass bearings
The degrees go up 22.5 degrees
Fax for longitude and latitude
• Prime, Meridian and international dateline connect at the polls
• the space between the tropic of cancer, and Capricorn is called the tropics
• the prime meridian connects to the north and south pole and goes through Greenwich England
Time zone rule
Time zone rule:
Going east = add time
Going west = Subtract time
Know how to change through Candace time zones
• Pacific time(3 hours behind us)
• mountain time(2 hours behind us)
• Central time(1 hour behind us)
• eastern time(where we live)
• Atlantic time(1 hour ahead of us)
• Newfoundland time(1.5 hours ahead of us)
