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Cartography
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study of maps
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not map making
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What 2 purposes do maps serve?
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tool for storing reference and material & tool for communicating geographic information
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reference and info
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Earliest maps made by ...
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Babyloions 2300BC
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clay tablets
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Polynesions used ... to ...
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stickcharts made of trees and shells to navigate south pacific islands
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beach materials ... islands
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Who was first to demonstrate that Earth was Spherical?
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Aristotle
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Aeropostale
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First to use word GEOGRAPHY
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Eratothenes
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Era...
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Greek Ptomely did what?
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Wrote a guide to geography (100AD-170AD?) that was used for thousands of years
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Guide
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How did cartographers make maps accurate?
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Explorers like Columbus and Magellon traveled the world and told them what they saw.
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Explorers
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Scale
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the relationship of a features size on a map to its actual size on earth
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size
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Projection
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the method of transferring location on Earth to a flat map
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map-making
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Land ordinance of 1785
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divided much of the US into townships to sell land to settlers in the west
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division of land
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Township
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6 square miles/32 1mile by 1mile sections
(principal meridians north south) (base lines east west) |
sections
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GIS
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computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze and display geographic data
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Geographic Information System
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Remote Sensing
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satellite images of earth's suface
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sat.
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GPS
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finds the exact position of something on Earth
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Boat, plane
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