Intro Flashcards
What is geography?
Geography is the science that tries to understand how the earth works and how humans change it
What are the 4 important concepts?
Interrelationships, spacial significance, patterns and trends and geographical perspective
What are interrelationships?
Relationships between humans and nature
What is spacial significance?
Asking where something is, and why it is where it is
What’s the importance of patterns and trends
To understand why things are happening
What is geographical perspective?
Understanding other fields such as economics, history, urban planning.
What questions do geographers try to answer
Where are things located on earth, what are the connections between people and earth (interrelationships) and how can we illustrate this info to understand it better
The 2 main focuses of geography
physical geography and human geography
Features of a map?
Title, legend, scale, direction, border and date of publication
What are cardinal points and ordinal points?
Cardinal points - N E S W
Ordinal points - everything else
What is a large scale map + examples
shows a lot of streets schools and railways eg. topographic, road city maps, bus maps.
Small scale maps + examples
Shows a little (borders, lakes, large rivers) eg. world maps, globes and atlases
What are the three main map projections?
Peters, Mercator, and Winkel-Tripel
What is latitude
Lines that measure the distance north and south of the equator. The latitude of a region determines the weather
What is longitude
The measure east and west from the prime meridian. Longitude lines determine the time zone. Longitude lines meet at the poles
What provinces/territories are in the pacific time zone
British Colombia and Yukon
Mountain time zone?
Alberta, North West Territories, Nunavut
Central time zone?
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut
Eastern time zone?
Ontario, Quebec, Nunavut
Atlantic time zone?
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, P.E.I
Newfoundland time zone?
St Johns
What is scale
Scale shows the relationships between distance on a map and the actual distance on earths surface
What are the 3 kinds of scale
Linear scale, representative fractions (ratios), and direct statement scale
This map distorts direction, land masses, and size
Winkel Tripel
Compass direction for 90 degrees
East
What scale has no units
Representative fraction
Which direction is in between SW and NE
SE
What’s the capital of New Brunswick?
Fredericton
