Flashcards
AP Human Vocab Unit 1
Cards in this deck (15)
- 1topic 1: mapa representation with an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities and roads
EX: physical maps, topographic maps, road maps - 2topic 1: cartographythe study of the science of map making
- 3topic 1: map scalethe relationship between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground
- 4topic 1: parallela circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians
- 5topic 1: meridiana circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on earth's surface and terrestrial poles.
- 6topic 1: prime meridianthe meridian, designed as 0 degrees longitude(vertical), that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.
- 7topic 1: regionany area differentiated from surrounding areas by at least one characteristic
EX: FORMAL, FUNCTIONAL, & PERCEPTUAL REGIONS - 8topic 1: distortionthe act of distortion of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation.
EX: DISTORTION THAT OCCURS FROM TAKING A CIRCULAR GLOBE AND PUTTING IT ON A FLAT MAP - 9topic 1: remote sensingStudying an object or location without making physical contact
EX: CAMERAS ON SATELLITES - 10topic 1: GIS(Geographic Information System) a computer system that analyzes geographically referenced this information
- 11topic 1: GPS(Global Positioning System) satellite navigation based on a global network that transmit radio signals from earth.
- 12topic 2: mercator projectionan attempt to create a two-dimensional map that maintained accurate and reliable compass points, but sizes are very distorted and inaccurate
- 13topic 2: robinson projectioncompromise in that it attempts to minimize errors in distance, relative size, and compass direction but does not accurately depict any one of these factors
- 14topic 2: gall-peters projectionreflects the land size of all continents equally, but in doing so it distorts distance and direction.
- 15topic 2: goode homolosine projection