WORLD GEOGRAPHY USE YOUR GRAPHIC ORGANIZER WHAT IS

WORLD GEOGRAPHY USE YOUR GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY? • Study of everything on Earth, from rocks and rainfall to people and places • Study how natural environment influences people • Study how people’s activities affect Earth • Study how world is changing • Important part is perspective (the way a person looks at something)

MAP ESSENTIALS • Maps are visual representations of geographic information • Standard ways that maps show information – Symbols – Color – Lines – Boundaries – Contours

What are the parts of the map that you see? Why are they important?

MAP ELEMENTS: COMPASS ROSE • Directional indicator (shows directions) identifies orientation • Most common is the compass rose – Cardinal directions • north, south, east and west – Intermediate directions • northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest

MAP ELEMENTS: SCALE • Used to represent distances between points on a map • Areas can be represented using a variety of scales • Amount of detail shown on a map is dependent on the scale used

MAP ELEMENTS: LEGEND • Explains what the symbols mean • Also called a Key

LINES OF LATITUDE • East-west lines which measure distances north and south of the equator • Measured in degrees • Also called parallels

LINES OF LONGITUDE • North-south lines which measure distances east and west of the Prime Meridian • Measured in degrees • Also called meridians

• Leave the Types of Maps section of your graphic organizer blank. We will come back to that tomorrow.