EARTH 222 Quiz: Exam 1 Study Nontes

• School: U of M
• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Course: EARTH 222
• Professor: Brian Arbic

Document Summary

Bones of marine fish in stone age settlements (~40,000 bce) Primarily in mediterranean first civilization to use boats in ~3000 bce. Phoenicians (~1100 to 850 bce) voyaged through mediterranean as far as british isles. Herodotus made one of the first high quality maps. Greek geographer pythaes developed a method for determining latitude using polaris. Ptolemy had excellent n-s (latitude) accuracy that was the basis for most maps until. Polynesians colonized western pacific islands: relied on stars, wind patterns, wave patterns, clouds, and seabirds instead of maps. South pole is 90 s, north pole is 90 north (latitude) Polaris is so far away that its light is essentially coming from due north, which helps us to. 0 longitude line cuts through greenwich, england estimate latitude. A nautical mile is equal precisely to one minute of latitude that means each degree of latitude is 60 nautical miles.