Geography

Limited number of related characteristic, often, similar culture

Formal regions

People perceive themselves as similar to each other

Perceptual regions

Describes how people interact with the environment and include oil spills in the Golf of mexico

Human-environment interaction

Always hot, average temp. 80F, average rain 80 inches found in central and south America, Afica and southeast Asia

Tropical wet

Subsoil is constantly frozen, summer last for a few weeks, reaches above 40F slightly, less than 15 inches fall here a year, located mostly in the northern hemi.

Tundra

Cold temp ever recorded was 128.6F below zero, subregions are sometimes polar deserts, they recived less than 10 inches of percipitation

Ice cap

Summers are short and cold and winters are very cold, temp at freezing or below last 5-8 mouths, located in subregions especially Canada and Russia

Subarctic

Summers are hot and the winters are mild and cold, recives about 16 inches a year, found in the interior of continients or zones around the desert, most productive agricultural land in the world

Semiarid

Summers are dry and hot and winters are cold and rainy, located in the west coast of the US and part of Australia

Mediterranean

Summer are rainy season and winter is dry, this climate is found in Africa, south and central America, and parts of Asia

Tropical wet and dray

4 Oceans

Antarctic ocean, Pacific ocean, Indian, and Artic

How long it takes to travel between two places

Time distance

How distant a place feels

Psychological distance

Less than 10 inches of rain each year, usually very hot but nights can be cold

desert

long summers that are hot and humid; hurricanes are frequent; winters are mild to cool, and crops can be grown easily, especially rice

Humid subtropical

Experiences 4 seasons, found in the mid latitude interitors of N. hemi continents

Humid continental

May have Sog/Smoke and fog, Preciprication in west coast climate regions in distrubed throughout the year, located close to the ocean

Marine west coast

Climate varies with latitude, elevation, other topograghy, and continetal

Highlands

Shows us the north down, the bad thing about this is that its elongated and the size and shape is distorted

Azimuthal projection

Distort shapes at the edge of the map

Conical projection

Compress landmasses at the equator and distort them at the poles

Mercator projection

Shows the acuate shape and size of the landmass, but distannces on the map are not correct.

Homolosine projection

Show the entire earth but landmasses at the poles are flat

Robinson projection

Show the shortest distance from one place to another

Planar projection