Introduction Flashcards
Who is Eratosthenes
Father of geography
Cartography
The science of map making
Map projection
The process of Displaying a three Dimensional object on a two dimensional surface dimensional object on a two dimensional surface
Latitude
(East-west ) (climate) parallels that are aligned east-west across the globe at the equator
Longitude
(International date line)Angular distance measured from the prime meridian
Prime meridian
A great circle of the earth passing through the poles running through Greenwich England
What is the equator
The great circle whose plane is perpendicular to the axis equidistant from the two poles
Map scale
The ratio of distance between two places on a map
Who is Carl saucer
Cultural landscape fashioned from natural landscape by man
Who is Alfred Wegener
Explained the apparent jigsaw like fit of land masses (continental drift)
What is plate tectonics
Rafts of light rock that rest on heavier rocks whose movement is propelled by giant circulation cells
What is Pangea
Pieces of supercontinent that existed hundreds of millions years ago that drifted away
What is a desert
Any area that had 10 inches of rainfall or less per year
