World Geography: Chapter 1

Creation Mandate

Genesis 1:28

Geography means

Earth & written descriptions

GEO THEMES;

-Location

-Place

-Human-Environment interaction

-Region

-Movement

Location

Relative or absolute

Place

Natural or human (Jobs) characteristics

Movement

of people, goods, disease, etc

Geography tools

-maps

-globes

Map makes are called

cartographers

Prime Meridian (East, West)

180* Meridian and Prime Meridian makes the great circle

Gores

globe covered by 12 paper strips

Cylinderical Projection

Mostly used

Mercator Projection was published in…

1559

Mercator Projection

makes longitude and latitude lines look straight

Goode’s Projection

distorts distance and all north-south directions

Robinson Projection

most used

Azimuthal Projection

uses flat paper, corners accurate, distorted edges

conic projection

cone touches entire line of latitude, only accurate where cone touches

Map Analysis types

-Political boundaries

-Sheets

-Parcels

-Land usage

-Elevation

-Real world

GIS is collected by

photographs, laser sensors, & height measuring radars

Technologies used in Geo

-GPS

Culture

System of culture, traditions, & habit

Culture’s relation to creation mandate…

making something out of creation is the essence of the creation mandate

Categories of evaluating culture

-Structure

-Direction

Cultural Diversity

How diff, people vary in languages, customs, and other factors that make culture, culture

Culture Themes

-Religion

-Aesthetics

-Social Groups

-Physical Environment

-Institutions

Institution types

-marriage

-family

-government

Social Groups contain _________ as foundation

family

social groups are tied to…

institutions

God intended for humanity to…

expand & multiply Earths beauty

Develop ________ to see aesthetic in the unappreciated

Taste

Physical Environment

Our responsibility to care for gods earth