Unit 1: Map Skills and Physical Geography – Flashcards
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Where people and places are on the Earth's surface.
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Location
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The human and physical characteristics of a location.
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Place
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Area of Earth's surface with similar characteristics.
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Region
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How people, products, information and ideas move from place to place, and what happens as a result.
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Movement
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How people adapt to the environment or modify it to suit their needs.
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Human Environment Interaction
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5 Themes of Geography
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Location, place, region, movement, human environment interaction.
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The study of the earths surface and its various climates, countries, peoples, and natural resources.
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Geography
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A two dimensional graphic representation of selected parts of the earths surface.
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Map
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Shows the major physical features of an area, such as its rivers, mountains, vegetation, and elevation.
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Physical map
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Shows the major boundaries between countries or states.
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Political map
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Shows information relating to a specific theme, such as the spread of a religion, trade routes, or the industrial growth of a nation.
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Thematic map
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Shaded or patterned map used to visualize how a measurement varies across a geographic area.
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Choropleth map
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A map in which the shape or size is distorted in order to demonstrate a variable such as travel, population, or economic production.
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Cartography map
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Parts of a map (TODALS)
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An acronym used to remember the different parts of a map. Title, Orientation(compass), Date, Auothor, Legend (what symbols on the map mean), Scale (ratio of distance used on the map).
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Ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground.
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Map scale
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A representation of a curved 3-dimensional surface onto a flat 2-dimensional map. There are 3 major types of projections: cylindrical, conic, and planar.
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Projection/projection types
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The loss of accuracy I. Size, shape, position or distance when transferring a curved surface to a flat surface such as a map.
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Distortion
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A rectangular map used as a navigation tool in which the lines for longitude and latitude are straight and parallel. Distortions increases as you move further from the equator.
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Mercator map
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Allows the location of a point on a map to be described in a way that is universally understood. It typically includes coordinates and is often rectangular or square shaped.
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Grid system
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The distance in degrees on the earths surface north and south of the equator. The equator is zero degrees.
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Latitude
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The distance in degrees on the earths surface east and west of the prime meridian.
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Longitude
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The condition of the atmosphere at a particular location and time.
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Weather
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Typical weather conditions throughout the year at a particular locations as observed over time.
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Climate
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( as the most important variable determining climate ) The closer in area is to the equator, the more sunlight receives, leading to higher temperature.
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Latitude
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A long-term change in the Earth's climate.
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Climate change
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A renewable source that is a natural resource which can replenish with the passage of time, such as wind or solar panel. A nonrenewable resource is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic use, such as coal and petroleum.
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Renewable/non-renewable sources
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Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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Stainable development
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More people, groups or things that are dependent on each other.
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Interdependent
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( environment ) to adjust to different conditions or a new environment.
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Adapt
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( environment ) when an organism changes in environment or the environment changes in organism.
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Modify
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A group of ecosystems, usually consisting of a large area of similar plants and animals, climate and soil.
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Biomes
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Forest that exist between 25 and 50° latitude in both hemispheres, which typically have high humidity, heavy rainfall, large, tall trees in wide leaves.
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Temperate forests
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An ecosystem that occurs roughly within the latitude 28° north or south of the equator and experiences high average temperatures, density humidity and a significant amount of rainfall.
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Tropical rainforests
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Land with grass growing on it, especially farmland is used for grazing or pasture.
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Grasslands
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Regions that support only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all due to little rainfall.
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Deserts
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Cold, flat, treeless plains in the Arctic region.
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Tundra
