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21 Cards in this Set
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Geography |
Geography means the study of the interaction of humans with the earth. Geography comes from ancient Greek. "geo" meaning earth and "graphy" means to write. |
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Location |
A place or position. |
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Movement |
changing location, place or position. |
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Region |
a district or territory |
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Place |
something |
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Human and Environment Interaction |
bleh |
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Tobler’s First Law |
everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distance things. |
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Longitude |
The imaginary line that goes vertically around the world (north/ south) |
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Latitude |
The imaginary line that runs horizontally around the world (east/west) |
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The equator |
The line that crosses horizontally around the center of the earth at zero degrees north and south. |
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The prime Meridian |
The imaginary vertically line across the earth at zero degrees east and west. |
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International date line |
The imaginary date line of longitude on the earths surface located at about 180 degrees east or west of the Greenwich meridian. |
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Absolute location |
the exact location on the earth of a specific and never changes |
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Relative location |
can be used to describe a place but can change |
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Physical map |
show natural futures |
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political maps |
things that people have created like streets and buildings |
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special purpose maps |
have a different purpose and have a special purpose |
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projection |
changes the shape, area or the size |
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scale |
the relations between the size of an object on the map and the actual size on earth |
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Mercator |
the Mercator makes sizes of the region larger t since its on the equator it makes things there smaller |
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Gall-peters |
areas of the equal size on the globe are equally sized on the map |
