Skills Of A Geographer Part 1

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What exactly is Geography?

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the word "geography" comes from ancient Greek.

"Geo" means earth and "graphy" means write.

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What do Geographers study?

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Geographers study where people and activities are found on the Earth and why they are found there.

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5 Themes of Geography

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Location

Movement

Region

Place

Human and Environment Interaction

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Tobler’s First Law

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"everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."

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How has geography changed over the years?

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in the past, geographers have used maps as navigational tools in order to figure out how to get from place ti place. now geographers use maps as a way to communicate key information about a certain place.

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How are maps made?

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maps are made my cartographers. they used to be made my hand but now geographers use GIS (geographic information system) which is a computer system that displays geographic data on computer made maps.

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What is the difference between Human and Physical Geography?

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Human Geography- studies how humans affect the Earth, or how the Earth influences human behavior.

Physical Geography- studies natural features and processes of the Earth

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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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The imaginary line around the Earth. It is Zero degrees North and zero degrees South because it is in the exact middle.

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The Prime Meridian

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The imaginary line around the center of the Earth. It is zero degrees East and zero degrees West because it is in the exact middle.

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the international date line

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an imaginary line of longitude on the Earth's surface located at about 180 degrees East( or West) of the Greenwich Meridian.

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Absolute location

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the exact location on the Earth of an item.

written in latitude and longitude.

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relative location

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used to describe a place, but the description would change.

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physical maps

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show natural features of the 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 citites

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special purpose maps

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have different purposes. some common special purpose maps are maps that show population, languages, or ethnicities

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map projections

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the basic problem of map projections is that they may distort the shape, area, or relevant size of items on the map.

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scale

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the relationship between the size of an actual object on a map and the size of the actual features on Earth's surface

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Mercator map preojection

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the Mercator map makes things close to the equator look small and things farther north and south look much bigger