assignment eight

The United States of America

1. Washington
2. Oregon
3. California
4. Arizona 
5. Nevada 
6. Utah
7. Idaho 
8. Montana 
9. Wyoming 
10. Colorado 
11. New Mexico 
12. Texas 
13. Oklahoma 
14. Kansas 
15. Nebraska 
16. South Dakota 
17. North Dakota 
18. Minnesota 
19. Iowa 
20. Missouri
21. Arkansas 
22. Louisiana 
23. Wisconsin 
24. Michigan 
25. Illinois 
26. Indiana 
27. Ohio
28. Kentucky 
29. Tennessee 
30. Mississippi 
31. Alabama 
32. Georgia
33. Florida 
34. South Carolina 
35. North Carolina 
36. Virginia 
37. West Virginia
38. Pennsylvania 
39. New York 
40. Vermont  
41. New Hampshire 
42. Maine 
43. Massachusetts
44. Rhode Island 
45. Connecticut 
46. New Jersey
47. Delaware 
48. Maryland 
49. Alaska 
50. Hawaii

assignment seven

Time zone-A region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.
UTC- Coordinated Universal Time- the primary time standard by which the world regulates the clock and time
GMT-Greenwich Mean Time-the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in England
Daylight Savings Time- time adjusted to achieve longer daylight time
Standard Deviation- when you add or subtract one hour from the UTC

Geographers calculate standard deviation by dividing 24 (hours in a day) by 360 (amount of degrees in the world). 360 divided by 24 is 15 and every 15 degrees on Earth's surface it deviates 1 hour. When you move west it subtracts an hour and when you move east you add an hour.

assignment six

Geographic grid-system of imaginary arcs drawn in a grid pattern on Earth's surface
Latitude-geographic coordinate that specifies the north and south position
Longitude-geographic coordinate that specifies the east and west position on Earth's surface
Parallels- constant lines of latitude
Meridians-connect points with the same longitude

The major significant lines of latitude and longitude are the Prime Meridian and the Equator.

In class we plotted absolute locations of Washington D.C, London, Mexico City, Sao Paolo, Cairo, Moscow, Beijing and Tokyo.

assignment five

Map Scale- Relationship of a feature's size on a map to its's actual size on Earth
Projection- Scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map
Meridian- a circle of longitude passing through a location on Earth's surface
Longitude- Distance east or west of an imaginary line
Latitude- Measurement north or south of Earth's equator
Parallel- imaginary line parallel to Earth's equator
Prime meridian- zero of longitude

The three main map projections are Mercator, Robinson, and Goode-Homolosine.

Map scale allows you to be as zoomed in or as zoomed out as you want to be in a location without changing the size of the map. Map projection tries to make an accurate representation of Earth even though it's a sphere. Map projections put the spherical Earth onto a 2D flat paper.

assignment four

1. Canada
2. U.S.A
3. Mexico 
4. Guatemala 
5. Belize
6. El Salvador 
7. Honduras 
8. Nicaragua 
9. Costa Rica 
10. Panama 
11. Cuba 
12. Jamaica 
13. Haiti 
14. Dominican Republic 

1. Colombia 
2. Venezuela 
3. Guyana 
4. Suriname
5. French Guiana 
6. Ecuador 
7. Peru 
8. Bolivia
9. Brazil
10. Paraguay 
11. Chile 
12. Argentina 
13. Uruguay 

assignment three

Mental Map- personal visualization of spatial information
Activity spaces- daily cyclical movements

3 ways we use mental maps

1. Finding our way from point A to point B 
2. Organizing and storing info 
3. Make sense of the world 

You can make a mental map of how you get to a location and that includes roads and directions so it would be used in geography.

assignment two

Cartography- the science of mapmaking
Maps-two dimensional or flat scale model of Earth's surface or a portion of it
Absolute location- exact latitude and longitude of a specific location
Relative Location- the position of a place based on it's location to it's surroundings

Two ways geographers use maps

1. As a reference to pinpoint absolute and relative locations of places (learn where something is)
2. A communication tool to reference physical and human activities 

Maps have progressed over the years because now we have many ways of traveling other than foot so we can see the whole world instead of what is in walking distance. Early maps were used to get someone from point a to point b in walking distance and now they have evolved to see the whole world. 

assignment one

Human geography is the branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place.

Geography is the study between places and the relationships between people and their environments.

Physical geography is the study of our planet and its systems.

Differences- physical geography is the study of the natural part of the Earth while human geography looks at the impact people have on the Earth

Similarities- they are both the study of land

Physical map
Political map
Thematic map