wgeo- 5 themes/latitude and longitude test
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bethany_dennison on September 1, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Atlantic, Pacific, Southern, Arctic, Indian | 5 oceans |
| North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Antarctica, Australia | 7 continents |
| geography | combines the physical and human aspects of our world and shows the relationship between people and the environment |
| geographer | someone who analyzes the Earth from many points of view |
| place, human/environment interaction, movement, regions, location | 5 themes of geography |
| absolute location | where something is in longitude and latitude |
| relative location | depends on points of reference |
| physical features | place: landforms, bodies of water, ecosystems |
| human features | place: bridges, roads, buildings, culture, language |
| depend on the environment, adapt to the environment, modify the environment | human/environment interaction (how do people interact with and change their environment?) |
| movement | how are people and places linked by communication and the flow of people, ideas, and goods? |
| globes | What is the best way to portray the earth? |
| distortion | what is caused when mapmakers put the Earth on a flat map? |
| projection | a method of putting a map of the Earth onto a flat piece of paper |
| interrupted projection, equal-area projection, peters projection, robinson projection | 4 projections of flat maps |
| grid | network of imaginary lines formed from latitude and longitude |
| 23 1/2 degrees | earth's axis inclination |
| latitude | horizontal lines on a map |
| longitude | vertical lines of a map |
| equator | located at 0 degrees latitude |
| 180 | How many parallels of latitude are there? |
| 360 | How many meridians of longitude are there? |
| 180 degrees east and west of prime meridian | How is longitude measured? |
| Prime Meridian and International Date Line | What are the two important lines of longitude? |
| 23 degrees 28 minutes north of equator | Location of Tropic of Cancer |
| 23 degrees 27 minutes south of equator | Location of Tropic of Capricorn |
| 66 1/2 degrees north | location of Arctic Circle |
| 66 1/2 degrees south | location of Antarctic Circle |
| no | Does the distance between two longitudes remain constant? |
| yes | Does the distance between two latitudes remain constant? |
| Australia | only inhabited continent completely south of the equator |
| Ecuador | South American country that takes its name from the line of latitude it is located on |
| 15 degrees in one hour | velocity of Earth's rotation |
| Prime Meridian | located at 0 degrees longitude |
| International Date Line | located at 180 degrees longitude |
| Greenwich Mean Time | London borough that has given its name Prime Meridian; where time starts |
| Meridian of Greenwich | another name for Prime Meridian |
| four | Each degree of longitude corresponds to a time of _________ minutes. |
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