ESC 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Spheroid, Hydrosphere, Milky Way

• School: UW La Crosse, UWL, UWLAX
• Department: ESC Earth Science
• Course: ESC 101
• Professor: Reyerson

Document Summary

4 types of earth spheres: atmosphere (sky), hydrosphere (in water), biosphere (living things), Regional (old fashioned, countries, states, distinct areas on earth"s surface) Topical (focus on distinct topics, landforms, sand dunes, rivers, ancient soils) The overlap between the human and the natural world is called the human-environment interaction. For this class we focus on physical and topical mostly. The geographical grid lecture notes: earth"s setting in space, earth"s solar system part of milky way galaxy. Grid pattern is the easiest way to label any point on the earth a. ii. North to south is longtitude: portrayal: map projections b. i. The longitude lines wrap near the north and south poles because the earth is a sphere b. ii. Latitude- angular distance north or south of the equator (measured from center of earth) Measured by angles from your position to equator from 0-90 degrees. Parallel: line connecting points of equal latitude (never intersect)