vocab terms
Across
- 2. Grid - The grid system made up of lines of longitude and latitude - allows absolute location to be identified anywhere on the planet
- 3. One of the five themes, the human physical geography of a location
- 7. the shared beliefs, behaviors, customs, and traditions of a group
- 11. the global positioning satellite system
- 13. the global grid lines that run horizontally
- 14. a map with known distortion
- 16. Directions- Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast
- 18. one of the five themes, how similar areas are grouped/organized
Down
- 1. The study of the Earth, its physical and human systems, and how they are organized and interact
- 4. Zero degrees latitude
- 5. tool on the map that shows relative size and distance
- 6. One of the five themes, where something can be found
- 8. the global grid lines that run vertically
- 9. Interaction- one of the five themes, how humans changed the Earth and adapt to the Earth
- 10. one of the five themes, how people, stuff, and ideas get from one location to
- 12. Meridian- Zero degrees longitude
- 15. Directions- North, East, South, West
- 17. Inaccuracy on maps (objects stretched, squeezed, misshaped, too close, too far apart, etc) caused by making 2 dimensional images of a 3 dimensional object (the earth)
- 19. a 3 dimensional map of the Earth