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| What are the 5 Fundamental Themes of Geography |
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| Place(physical features but also emotional), location, (address) relationships(relationship with greater area),movement(traffic areas where we spend most time), regions(region located in such as norh spearfish) |
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| earth science, cultural environment, location, area analysis |
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| (title,legend,scale,orientation,projection) |
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| planar,cylindrical,conic) |
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| (maps that alter the size of the unit based on a single variable) |
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| depict movement or connections between places |
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| symbology is based on colors or shades of colors) 1. When data can be attributed to unit. 2.when data are in ratios, rates, or percentages |
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| uses different size symbols to define values) |
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| uses contour lines to define shape and landscape |
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(18th century german philosopher)
observed that objects don’t exist in static vaccume |
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1 he was Ionian and father of geography
2 he traveled to places he wrote about in a book called “the histories” |
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1.he has access to a great deal of knowledge… he was head librarian in Alexandria 241 BS
2. understood cosmic realtionships very well.
3. tried to calculate circumference of the earth real circumference of the earth is 24 thousand 900 and 1 miles
4. coined the term geography…. Means writing about the earth in greek
5.first person to cut the earth into climactic zones
6.said we have torid zone in middle and temperate zone farther down and frigid zone both northerly and southerly |
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| 1. wrote 17 volume work called geographia |
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1. Major improvement to map projections
2. First to use 360 depgree system
3. First to divide latitude at the equator instead of at the poles |
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