Question | Answer |
What is location? | A particular place or position
Absolute: The exact spot where something is found on the Earth's surface
Relative: The position of an object on Earth's surface using different objects to compare it |
What is place? | A specific area or region of the world |
What is the difference between physical and human feature? | Physical features are features that come from nature
Human features are features that are created by humans |
What is a region? | Two or more places that are close to one another and have something in common. There are physical, political, and cultural regions |
What is a human-environment interaction? | People affecting the environment, and the environment affecting people |
What is movement? | How people, products and ideas move from one place to another |
Which way is longitude? | North to south |
Which way is latitude? | East to West |
What is the "two-finger trick"? | A way too find two coordinates without messing up, using two fingers |
What is the "inchworm trick" | A way to find a location by "inching" your fingers to the coordinates |
What is a key? | Table of symbols used to know the symbols on a map |
What is a scale bar? | A map element used to graphically represent the scale of a map |
What is a compass rose? | A compass that shows the cardinal directions |
What is the difference between a large-scale and a small-scale map? | Large-scale map shows details as whats in a city. Small-scale map shows a larger area, like a region or country. It normally shows more physical features than the large-scale map. |
What does a physical map show? | Natural features: mountains, deserts, and rivers |
What does a political map show? | Capitols, abbreviations, and countries |
What does a population density map show? | The population of countries and cities |
What does an economic map show? | Land use in different countries, and different resources |
What does a climate map show? | National capitols and different climates |
What are the strengths and weaknesses of globes? | Strengths: whole world, more accurate
Weaknesses: harder to visualize |
What are the strengths and weaknesses of maps? | Strengths: Convert,distort, show one part
Weaknesses: Not as accurate. flat |
What is distortion? Why does it happen? | Peeling off a globe and straightening it to see more of a region |
What components make up the GPS? | Layering maps |
How does the GPS work? | It gathers and stores info, 30 satellites orbit, and to find your location it finds the distance of the satellites |
What is a GIS? | A computer system that stores, uses, and analyzes geographic data |