GEOG 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: International Date Line, Global Positioning System, Russia-2
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How do geographers describe where things are: maps: a 2d or flat scale model of earth"s surface, cartography: art of map making, contemporary mapping. Remote sensing: acquisition of data about earth"s surface from a satellite. Size: russia, canada, united states, china, brazil. Why is each point of earth unique: location. Toponym: name given to a place (washington: site. Physical character of a place: situation. Telling time by longitudes: time zones, gmt, idl: international date line. Regions: areas of unique characteristics, types of regions. Map essentials: title: portion of the earth shown, theme, year, example: us population 2000, direction finder. 3: legend/key: explains colors/symbols used, example: green=land blue=water *=capital city, coordinate system: latitude, longitude, alpha numeric, scale: ratio of map distance to actual ground, fractional/ratio, written statement, graphic c. i. Example: 1 inch= 1 mile: small scale: represents large area (world, large scale: represents small area (bridgewater, projection, the scientific method of transferring locations on earth"s surface to a flat map.
