Skills Of A Geographer

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Longitude

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The imaginary line that runs vertically around the earth (North/South)

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Latitude

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The imaginary line that runs horizontally around the earth (East/West)

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The Equator

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An imaginary line that wraps around the world and is in the exact center of the Earth (North 0 South 0). Places on the equator are some of the hottest places on Earth.

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The Prime Meridian

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An imaginary line that wraps around the earth and is in the exact center ( East 0 West 0).

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The International Date Line

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An imaginary longitude line 180 degrees away from the Prime Meridian that dictates the beginning and end of specific time zones.

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Absolute Location

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Absolute location uses longitude and latitude to tell where something is therefore it will never change wherever you are. Absolute location is written using degrees and latitude and longitude.

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Relative location

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This can be used to describe a location, but the description will change depending on where you are in the world.

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Physical maps

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Show natural features of land like mountains, deserts, and elevation

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Political maps

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Show borders of states, countries and the location of cities

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Special Purpose maps

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These maps can be used for a plethora of reasons whether it be to show the sales of video games worldwide on the map or just to show how states are feeling about the election.

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Map Projections

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Map projections are what happens when you take a map of the Earth and flatten it to make it easier to look at, but it will be distorted.

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Scale

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The relationship between the actual size of a country or state and what that looks like on a map

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Mercator

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Mercator inflates the size of regions as they gain distance from the equator and makes regions near the equator look very small.

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Robinson

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Robinson makes the world look more right and try's to balance out the size

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Gall-Peters

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Peters's projection gives things equal size on maps, but makes the shapes look weird

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Geography

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Geo: is Earth

Graphy: is to write

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Tobler's first law

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Geographers usually only care about with why things are where they are. The usual answer is whether or not locations are connected

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Cartographers

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People that make maps

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GIS

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a computer system that displays about geographical data made by computer maps

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GPS

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satellites that can pinpoint locations on maps

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Human geography

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The affects the earth can have on people and the affects human's can have on the Earth

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Physical geographer

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Studies the earths natural features and the earth

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5 themes of geography

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Location

Movement

Region

Place

Human and environment interaction

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What do geographers study?

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Geographers study where people are around the world and where activities are found. They also investigate why features can be found where they are found to do this they usually use spatial analysis.