Differences in Geo

1. Washington 2. Oregon 3. California 4. Arizona 5. Nevada 6. Utah 7. Idaho 8. Montana 9. Wyoming 10. Colorado 11. New Mexico 12. Texas 13. Oklahoma 14. Kansas 15. Nebraska 16. South Dakota 17. North Dakota 18. Minnesota 19. Iowa 20. Missouri 21. Arkansas 22. Louisiana 23. Wisconsin 24. Michigan 25. Illinois 26. Indiana 27. Ohio 28. Kentucky 29. Tennessee 30. Mississippi 31. Alabama 32. Georgia 33. Florida 34. South Carolina 35. North Carolina 36. Virginia 37. West Virginia 38. Pennsylvania 39. New York 40. Vermont 41. New Hampshire 42. Maine 43. Massachussets 44. Rhode Island 45. Connecticut 46. New Jersey 47. Delaware 48. Maryland 49. Alaska 50. Hawaii 

For today's lesson one objective, we had to define multiple terms that can help us to understand time zones and general time around the world. Time zones are the region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. UTC is universal coordinated time and it is  a time standard, basically, for every 15 degrees west the time is an hour up, but for every fifteen degrees west it is an hour down. This is an easy way to be able to calculate time zones so everyone is able to know what the time is in different places. GMT is greenwich mean time and it is located at the prime meridian (0 degrees). GMT is the master reference time for all points on Earth. Countries also use things such as daylight savings times for part of the year as an adjustment to their time zone. Daylight savings time Is when clocks are pushed forward an hour in order to provide an extra hour of daylight during warm months. In order for time zones to be calculated, standard...

The first learning objective we had to answer today was to define multiple terms, one of which was Geographic grid, this is a system of imaginary arcs drawn in a grid pattern on Earth's surface. This allows us to find the absolute location so we can describe where something is answering the question how do geographers describe where things are? (which is again the key question). We also had to define longitude and latitude. Latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the map. Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface. These terms are necessary in finding specific points on earth, again helping to describe where things are.  The major significant lines of latitude and longitude are the prime meridian, equator, tropic of cancer, tropic of Capricorn, arctic circle, and antarctic circle. Speaking of these lines, parallels are lines of constant latitude that run east to w...

Today we had to complete three learning objectives in order to answer the key question (How do geographers describe where things are?) One of these learning objectives was to define map scale, projection, meridian, longitude, parallel, latitude, and prime meridian. A map scale is the relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual size on earth. Scales help geographers describe where things are across large areas of land easily. Projection is the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface onto a flat map. This allows for geographers to provide an easy to use tool for people to locate places. The meridian is a circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on Earth's surface and the terrestrial pole. The prime meridian is the zero line of longitude/the main meridian on Earth. Meridians can be used to show if a country is elongated on a map to make it more accurate. Longitude lines are lines that go from north to south and latitude line...

1. Canada 2. United States 3. Mexico 4. Guatemala 5. Belize 6. San Salvador 7. Honduras 8.  Nicaragua  9. Costa Rica 10. Panama 11. Cuba 12. Jamaica 13. Haiti 14. Dominican Republic 1. Columbia 2. Venezuela 3. Guyana 4. Suriname 5. French Guiana 6. Ecuador 7. Peru 8. Bolivia 9. Brazil 10. Paraguay 11. Chile 12. Argentina 13. Uruguay 

Today's key question was the same as the question for yesterday (How do geographers describe where things are), but the new learning objectives we had to complete helped us to see the multiple ways that can be used to describe where things are. Learning objective number 1 was to define mental maps and activity spaces. Activity spaces are the areas that you travel across through your daily cycle. Because activity spaces are so familiar to people since they complete them every day, geographers can use the places in activity spaces to describe where things are. For example, the Safeway is right next to your house gives a general description to help someone find the Safeway easier. Mental maps are a personal visualization of spatial information (basically a map inside of your head). Mental maps can be used in many different ways and describing these ways was actually learning objective 2, and one way they are used that can help describe where different things are is, they can be used t...

Today's key question was "How do geographers describe where things are?" Well, this was able to be answered by completing the learning objectives. For example, one of these objectives was to define cartography, maps, absolute location, and relative location. The definition of cartography is the science of map making and the definition of a map is a two dimensional or flat scale model of the Earth or a portion of the Earth. Without cartography, maps wouldn't be able to be created, and without  maps, geographers would not be able to locate things, giving geographers no way to find things in the world, let alone describe where they are by finding the absolute and relative locations on the map. The definition of absolute location is the location of a place based on a fixed point on Earth. For example, latitude and longitude. And finally, the definition of relative location is the position of something based on its location with respect to other locations. These types of l...

Today, in class our key question was "What is Human Geography?" This question seems quite simple, it can be settled easily by one look in a dictionary or one google search. However, this question led to an interesting discovery for me. Before taking this class, I must admit that I wasn't very knowledgeable of geography, I didn't even know there were different types of it! However, this question and learning objective one (define geography, human geography, physical geography) allowed the class and I to know the different groups of geography and what exactly they were. For example, one of the groups of geography we learned about is human geography (obviously)  ,in the class discussion we found out that human geography has to do with the study of people, communities, cultures, economies, etc. basically human geography has to deal with humans and civilizations rather than physical areas or places on a map. An example of human geography could be someone studying towns in ...