Unit 1: What is Geography?

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Human Geography
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Human Geography
The study of people and the way they live
Physical Geography
The study of the earth, its climate and the forces that shape it
Environmental Geography
How humans interact with and impact the earth
culture relativism
belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards
Enthocentrism
the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture
Mercator Projection
used to navigate and is accurate in shape
Peters Projection
used to show the true of places by the equator
Robinson Projection
distorts in all ways; most commonly used in classrooms
Stewardship
Looking after something so it can be passed on to the next generation
Studying rocks
physical geography
studying population and migrationhuman geographystudying how globalization affects the earthenvironmental geographyabsolute locationExact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinatesrelative locationThe position of a place in relation to another placeLongitudemeridians; runs north south; measures east westLatitudeparallels; run east west; measure north southChorpleth mapA thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area.natural physical mapshows landforms and topographyCartogram MapA map in which the shape or size is distorted in order to demonstrate a variableGPSA system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.