Unit 1 Vocab

a computer system that analyzes and displays geographically referenced information. Used to create maps

• Geographic Information System

• Database

• Maps

• HEI

a great circle of the earth that is everywhere equally distant from the two poles and divides the earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres

• Hemispheres

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Latitude

One of the five themes of geography. Tells of the location of something (specific or relative)

• Human Environmental Interactions

• Place

• Region

• Location

The meridian of 0° longitude which runs through the original site of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, and from which other longitudes are reckoned east and west

• Equator

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Prime Meridian

Images of the earth from a satellite that is orbiting the earth. Helps to create maps.

• Satellite Images

• GIS

• Database

One of the five themes of geography. Used to help us figure out how and why goods and people move from one place to another.

• Region

• Location

• Movement

• Place

One of the 5 themes of geography. Used to help explore how humans interact with the environment. ex. changing how the earth looks, pollution, etc.

• Human Environmental Interactions

• Region

• Location

• Place

Distance measured by degrees or time east or west from the prime meridian

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Equator

Information from a given time in history that was taken at the time of the event. Can be in many forms like articles, movies, photographs, images, etc. An example of a primary source is a 1st hand account of 9/11 (someone watching the towers fall), an article written in 2001, a photograph of the towers falling.

The branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment.

• Economic Geography

• Human Geography

• Physical Geography