17 October 2018 Class

Today, at the beginning of class, we had to find the second map in the second batch (the time zone map). After we did, we had to find the time of a place in relation to another place we knew the time of. Some students in class learned that twelve AM is just another name for midnight, unlike other people's opinions, noon -- I personally knew that already. I am really anxious about the test. The information is flowing through everywhere. It feels like a huge volcano of knowledge. Like the information is erupting from the side of my brain that remembers things. SO I'm going to write whatever comes to mind that is important before it erupts.

• Geography is the study of where things are found on.
• Cartography is the science of mapmaking.
• The earliest maps were only used as reference tools (simple navigation).
• Eratosthenes, Ptolemy.
• Age of Exploration and Discovery (c. 1492)
• Christofer Columbus = horrible man, CC.
• Before CC, 30-40M indigenous people in America.
• Four types of distortion:
1. Shape of area.
2. Distance between points.
3. Relative size of different areas.
4. Direction between points.
• Meridians longitude.
• Parallels latitude.
• More accuracy by dividing each degree by minutes and seconds.
• 24 time zones, 15 degrees each.
• Greenwich (p. grenich).
• Passes through Royal Observatory.
• International Date Line.
• 180 degrees longitude (Greenwich antipode).
• Place - point on Earth that has a distinguishable characteristic.
• Location - position occupied on Earth's surface by something.
• Toponym - name given to a place.
• Derived from people of prominence, religious affiliation, physical features, and origins of settlers.
• Site - topography of place.
• Situation - relative location.
• Relative and absolute location.
• Regions:
• Formal (homogeneous, Japan).
• Functional - focused on specific thing.
• Vernacular - is part of cultural identity.
• Culture (l. cultus)
• to care for/about.
• Scale - relationship between portion of the Earth portrayed and Earth as a whole.
• Ratio X:Y
• Graphic X in. = Y mi.
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