Wednesday, February 11, 2009

209 World Geography: Using Maps Like a Geographer




Vocabulary:

1. Distortion
2. Geographer
3. Map Projection
4. Cardinal Points
5. Intermediate Points
6. Map Scale

Thinking

7. What is the difference between absolute and relative location?
8. Why do we have days and nights?
9. Why do we have seasons?
10. Why is winter in Boston, but summer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Melbourne, Australia?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Vocabulary Definitions


1. Distortion: is to change the size of a picture or map

2. Geographer: A perosn that studies maps

3. Map projection: Is to show a part of the world in a flat map

4. Cardinal points: North, South, East an West

5. Intermidiate points: North East, South East, North West, South West

6. Map scale: tools geographers use to measure the distance between to places

Quetions


7. The differences between absolute and relative location is that, absolute location is the exact location of a place and relative locations are not exact.

8. We have days and nights because when the Earth rotates around the sun some parts of the world get a little amount of some and the others get a lot ammount of sun.

9. We have seasons because of the angle and where the sun hits

10. Is winter in boston because there is higher ammount of sun in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in Melbourne, Australia. There is different seasons ion the different places of the world because of the equator. For example if is winter in Greenland is summer in Brazil. Greenland is north of the equator and Brazil is South of the equator.

By: Andy Herrera

Anonymous said...

1/12/09

Vocabulary

1. Distortion: to change the size of a picture.
2. Geographer: geographer is a person that looks for clues in a map.
3. Map projection: Map projection is a way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface.
4. Cardinal points: Is the directions on a compass rose.
5. Intermediate points: If a place is North West, North East, South East, and South West.
6. Map scale: An element of a map that shows how a unit of distance on the map.

Questions

7. The difference between absolute and relative location is the absolute location is an exact location on the map and relative location is comparing two places.
8. We have days and nights because of the rotation of the Earth.
9. The reason way we have season is because the Earth revolution, because the Earth goes around the Earth. Another reason why we have season is because the angle of the Sun light. For example if the Sun light is pointing to the North it will be summer in the North and winter in the South. Its because of the angle of the Earth too.
10. When is winter in Boston is summer in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and in Melbourne, Australia. Because when is summer in North is winter in the South is like integers, Because there is positive integers and negative integers like if there were a mirror in 0 just like in the equator the North is the positive and the South is the negative this means that when is summer in the North is winter in the South.




By: Wilmer E. QuiƱones

Anonymous said...

1. A change in shape, sizes, or position of a place when it is shown on a map.

2. They are explorers that study the natural features of the land, the sea and even the sky.

3. A way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface.

4. North, South, East, West.

5. Southeast, Northeast, Southwest, Northwest.

6. An element of a map that shows how a unit of distance on the map (such as an inch) relates to actual distance on the surface of Earth.

7. The difference between absolute and relative location is that an absolute location is the precise point where a place is located on Earth and a relative location is where a place is located in relation to another place.

8. Because when the world rotates one part of the world gets dark and the other part gets illuminated. The part that gets dark means that is night and the part that gets illuminated means that is day.

9. We have seasons because of the tilt, the Northern and Southern Hemispheres receive different amounts of sunlight as Earth moves around the sun. These differences create Earth’s season.

10. Winter Is in Boston, but summer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Melbourne, Australia because the sun right now is illuminating Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Melbourne, Australia and in Boston there’s a kind of shadow so it’s dark and that means that the sun is not warming Boston so its cold.

By: Alexandra Ruiz

Anonymous said...

2/12/09.

1. Distortion: a change in shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map.
2. Geographer: a person who Study maps.
3. Map Projection: a way of representing the spherical earth on a flat surface.
4. Cardinal point: the direction of a points.
5. Intermediate points: northeast , southeast , southwest , and northwest.
6.map scale: the map scale tells you how to read the distances on the map

7.The difference between absolute location and relative location is that absolute location you can finding in any place in the world. relative location maps also show the relative location of on earth.
8.we have nights and days because whet the earth move it make’s light cause the sun and whet one part is light the other part is night.
9.we have season because the northern and the southern Hemispheres receive different a mounts of sunlight as earth moves around the sun. these differences create earth seasons.
10.in Boston there’s winter and in Brazil is summer Because the equator divide the winter and summer.

Jaycob Perez

Anonymous said...

Vocabulary

Distortion: A change in a shape.

Geographer: Someone who studies’s maps.

Map projection: A way of showing the Earth

Intermediate points: North east, south east, east west and west east

Cardinal points: Directions of points

We have days and nights because once the Earth moves is a day in one side and dark in another.

We have seasons because of the equator of the Earth changes the weather.

We can find absolute location in a place of the Earth.

Relative location is the location of one place compared to another.

Christian mendez

Anonymous said...

this is your secon online question






1. distortion: a change in shapes

2. geographer: a persin who writes a map the spherica
3. map projection: is the dire n,s,w,i
4.cardina point: NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST
5. intermediate points: ne, se, sw, nw,
6. map scale : something the we use to measure

thinking

7. what is the difference between absolute and relative location? :is the precise point whore a place is

8. why do we have days and nights? : because inthe rotation of the world

9. why do we have season?:it depends of the ;igt of the sun

10. why is winter in boston, but summer in rio de janeiro, brazil and melbourne, australia?:because if you are in under
equator you have a different seasons

JEFFERON HARRIS 2/12/09