UNIT 1 Flashcards
What do Geographers identify?
They identify the location of important places
Historians ask when and where, what do Geographers ask?
Where and why.
Historians organize materials chronologically, Geographers organize materials……….
spatially
What does Geography encompass?
The Whole Earth
What are map makers called?
Cartographers
What is a place?
A specific point on Earth that has a specific/unique charactersitic.
What is a region?
An area of Earth with 1 or more distinctive characteristics. (Example: Bible belt, Tornado Alley)
Define scale.
thw relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.
What is space?
physical gap or interval between to objects.
Define Connection.
Relationship among people and objects across space.
What is a map?
Two dimensional/flat picture model of Earth’s surface
How can we use maps?
As a reference tool and a commincation tool.
What is the science of map making?
Cartography
When were maps revived again?
When explorers like Colombus founded North America in the exploration age.
What does GIscience stand for?
Geographic Information science
What is GIScience?
the analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies.
what does a Geographic Information System(GIS) do?
captures, stores,queries and displays the geographic data.
What is the science of taking measurements of Earth’s surface from photographs?
Photogrammetry
What is remote sensing?
the acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long distance methods.
What does GPS determine?
Determines the precise position of something.
What is the identification and storage of info by its latitude and longitude coordinates.
Geotagging
What is Volunteered geographic information(VGI)?
the creation and dissemination of
geographic data contributed voluntarily
and for free by individuals.
What is citizen science?
Scientific research by amateur scientists?
What is participatory GIS(PGIS)?
Community based mapping
