Geographical Science: Earth lines, spots, representations

To explain why, how and when the Earth’s phenomena or events occur, geography needs a methodology to investigate them and to answer these questions. This methodology is called:

• Methodological Principles of Cartography

• Methodological Principles of Geography

• Principles of Natural Sciences

This principle helps you to locate where the geographical events occur.

• Causality

• Location

• Relation

• Evolution

It is a principle that answers the question how and why does it happen?

• Evolution

• Relation

• Causality

• Generality

It is a principle that refers to the existing coordination between geographical phenomena and the social and biological events that happen in a place.

• Relation

• Causality

• Location

• Evolution

It's a principle that establishes the identification and comparison of the events and phenomenon development in space and time.

• Relation

• Evolution

• Location

• Generality

It studies the transformation the geographical events and phenomena undergo.

• Evolution

• Causality

• Generality

• Location

If you, a future geographer and climatologist, are studying the La Niña event (a complex anomaly that is an oceanic and atmospheric phenomenon that is the colder counterpart of El Niño), and you're studying when and where does it happen? Which principle are you applying here?

• Causality

• Generality

These are imaginary spots, lines, and circles that represent the terrestrial axis, the hemispheres, the poles, the equator, the parallels, and the meridians.

• Natural references

• Geographical references

• Geographical points of view

The imaginary line that runs horizontally, dividing the planet into two hemispheres, North and South, is called the:

• Greenwich meridian

• Equator

This great line divides the Earth’s surface into the Oriental (Eastern) and Occidental (Western) Hemispheres.

• Equator

• Greenwich meridian