my social studies class Flashcards
latitude
paralels runing East to Weast that shows locations.
longtitude
imaginary lines or meridians runing North to South,meaning distance between East and Weast.
Equator
imaginary line that circlesthe earth halfway between poles,divides the earth in to Northen and Southen hemispheres.
poles
extrems of the planet.
Artic
Antartic
North
South
Latitude and longtitude
lines that are defined into degrees,minuts and seconds
Time zones
Time zones boundaries (limits) don’t follow meridian’s exactly,but follow city,state,on national borders International Date Line
Time zones curiosities
.Every 15º of latitude ,the time changes by one hour there are 24 time zones in the world.
coordinaates
Coordinates are two lines that intersect together and form a location.
location
A location is a specific place that haves a point of interest and is marked by a coordinate
tools for geography:
phisical maps.
phisical maps
Phisical features mountains,bodies of water,deserts-elevation(Ussualy shown with shading and different color).
Interrupted
-area map-
selects lands areas and interrupts oceans-closses to real proportions
Road maps
Roads,hightway,airport,of interest
Used for driving routes and finding destinations
political maps
-cities,states and countrie borders,capitals
-human difined territories
climate maps
-climate zones
-precipitation
-tempeature
Topography maps
-elevation changes
-reliefs
rescources\economic maps
-natural rescources
-economic activities
mercator projection
-flat maps
-poles are ussualy distorted
-find coordinates
what is the best map of the earth?
Is a glob beacause it is a sphere.
How our time is called?
Is called brazilia time
what is the warmest region of our planet?
Is the region of the Equator.
