Geography-Chapter 1
Terms
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- perception
- our awareness and understanding ot the enviroment around us
- loaction
- an exact spot on earth
- distance scales
- determine real distances between points on a map
- Geography
- the study of everything on earth
- Conic
- area with east-west dimensions
- U.S.G.S
- U.S. Geological Survey
- legends
- identifyies symbols
- meteorology
- the study of weather and weather forcasting
- formal region
- region with one or more, common features that make it different from surrounding areas
- flat-plane
- shows direction, area, and size
- perceptual region
- Regions that reflect human feelings
- landscapes
- Scenery of places, including physical, human, and cultural features
- human systems
- distribution and characteristics of the world's people
- region
- an area with one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas
- directional indictors
- shows direction
- cylindrical
- shows direct shape and land masses
- perspective
- the way someone looks at something
- physical systems
- earth's natural enviroments
- functional region
- different places linked together and function as a unit
- cartography
- The study of maps and mapmaking