location-describes a place’s absolute address (latitude and longitude) B) Relative location-- what is actually at that location 2. Place- A) Physical characteristics- God-made B) Cultural characteristics- man-made 3. Human/environment interaction 4. Movement- earth’s plates‚ migration‚ ocean currents 5. Region- areas that have something in common (physical and climate) * Cartographer- a professional mapmaker * Lines of latitude run east to west for the purpose of measuring
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UNIT ONE MAP READING 1. INTRODUCTION One of the important dimensions of social knowledge is being able to locate yourself in time and space answering the questions when and where. Locating yourself in time requires an understanding of the concepts of days‚ hours‚ second‚ years‚ months‚ weeks and even centuries. Similarly locating yourself in space requires an
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fires‚ droughts‚ and reduced energy demand’s and increasing sea levels. The aspects of climate change we are certain of are as follows‚ increased water availability in moist tropics and high latitudes‚ and decreasing water availability and increasing drought in mid-latitudes and semi-arid low latitudes‚ hundreds of millions of people exposed to increased water stress causing localized negative impacts on small business and coastal areas‚ and increased damage from floods and storms‚ and leading
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architecture to forms of livelihood and religion to food and folk ways to transportation and communication networks. • Geographic Inquiry: The study of questions that relate to people interacting with earth‚ which are asked by geographers. • Latitude: Latitude lines are imaginary lines on the earth’s surface that run east and west around the globe and tell you your distance north or south of the Equator. • Longitude: Longitude lines are imaginary lines on the earth’s surface that run from pole to
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atmospheric circulation. All these cells affect our climate this is the average weather over a 30-year-period. Now using these terms‚ this essay will contain information relating to them. Climate variations around the plant do mostly occur due to latitude and the tri-cell model. A large amount of the variations takes place when the ITCZ (inter-tropical convergence zone) is overhead the equator. The Hadley cell is the most distinctive out of the three cells. As when it is at the equator the sun heats
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BIOSPHERE - region which is covered with life - the highest level of organization in the natural world 3 Components 1. Hydrosphere- water which includes water from seas‚ oceans‚ rivers‚ lakes‚ moisture in soil‚ groundwater and frozen water in polar ice caps plus moisture in the air 2. Atmosphere- gases 3. Lithosphere- land portion of the earth‚ made up of solid rocks and soils PHYSIOGNOMY OBSERVATIONS OF EARLY NATURALIST EXPLORERS 1. Plant communities from different regions of the world were
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additional components like ATMEGA microcontroller‚ ultrasonic sensor and microphone to provide more refined location and orientation information. The visually impaired person issues the command and receives the direction response using audio signals. The latitude and longitude values are received continuously from the GPS receiver and then transferred to the PC using the zigbee transceivers‚ using these values the localization of the visually impaired person is attained using Google map. KEYWORDS localization;
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sensing? -aerial photography -RADAR -LIDAR 16. What are the three main types of density? How are they different? -Arithmetic‚ Agricultural‚ Physiological 17. What would be an example of a small scale map? -map of US 18. What is 23.5 North latitude called? -Tropic of Cancer 19. What are some common types of map
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equitorial regions are warm during most of the year‚ amnd do not experince very cold temperatures. They tend to experince on long warm season interrupted by periods of drought and rainfall each year. Regions far away from the equator‚ in middle and high latitudes‚ have for seasons-spring‚ summer‚ autumn and winter. Summer and winter are usually the longest. Autumn and spring are shorter seasons which occur between winter and summers. (Fig 1.1) ii) Varying lenths of day and night at
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the ellipse about its minor axis Semi-major axis = a b a Semi-minor axis = b Flattening = f = (a-b)/a Eccentricity = e = SQRT(2f-f2 ) e2 = 2f – f2 Reference latitude Reference longitude University of Technology‚ Jamaica Geodetic Ellipsoidal Coordinates • Size and shape determined by semi-major axis (a)‚ flattening (f) • Latitude – angle btw ellipsoidal equator and the normal • Longitude – angle btw zero meridian and the plane containing the normal & the minor axis University of Technology
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