Geography 1100 Lecture 3: Geography Unit 3.docx
3 Mar 2014
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Understand some of the tools that geographers use to study people and the natural environment. Understand some basic physical properties of the earth: earth sun movement, seasons, and. Understand the effects of scale change, the development of a map from the curved surface of the. Earth, and the basic properties and limitations of maps. The properties of radiation that make images possible, how images are acquired, and the many problems that these images are used to help solve. Understand gis (geographic information systems) how gis"s are constructed and their use as a geographic tool. Primary tools for spatial analysis: are distorted because the earth is round and they need to portray it on a flat surface. Cartography, the art of map making: modern map making has its roots in the 17th century. Geographic grid a set of imaginary line that intersect at right angles to for map system of reference for location points on the surface of the earth.
