Complete the table below to compare their advantages and disadvantages. [pic] 12. With regard to the Land Ordinance of 1785, which became the official survey system for the United States, define the following: a) township b) sections ● CONTEMPORARY TOOLS 13. Geographers use a GIS (Geographic Information System) to store “layers” of data. Give three examples of types of data stored in a single layer.
Chapter 1: Foundations of Geography MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Which of the following possesses all the Earth properties of area, shape, direction, proximity, and distance, correctly? A) a world globe B) Robinson projection C) Alber's equal-area conic projection D) Mercator projection Answer: A 2) Which of the following is not a class of map projection? A) planar B) conical C) cylindrical D) geometrical Answer: D 3) The larger the scale of a map, the __________ the area covered by the map and the ________ detail it provides.
Go through the Timeline and watch the video MABO The Man to learn about Eddie Koiki Mabo. Select a significant moment in Eddie’s life to research. Write a two-minute speech about this moment from Eddie’s point of view and present it to the class. Q2. When Captain James Cook arrived on the Australian continent’s eastern shore in 1770, he officially claimed Australia as Crown Land in the name of the King of Great Britain; denying the existence of any Indigenous ownership.
He had always been interested in geophysics, developing fields of meteorology, and climatology. “While at Marburg, in the autumn of 1911, Wegener was browsing in the university library when he came across a scientific paper that listed fossils of identical plants and animals found on opposite sides of the Atlantic (UCMP, 2011)”. This information sparked the interest of Wegener and he started looking and finding more case of organisms that had been separated by the ocean. He realized that South America and Africa seemed to fit together. It had the appearance that if the edges of the continental shelves were closer they would match as if they were a puzzle.
Hector Rosario Jr Week 1 Geography Homework 1. How do we use direction, distance, and location to help us better understand the great variety of physical and human environmental conditions present on Earth’s surface? Geography is about the earth we inhabit and what we do with it, which involves a distinctive approach to acquiring knowledge and understanding. Geography examines the consequences of those decisions. It allows us to understand how human society has arranged itself over the earth’s surface.
His theory states that the continents were once one and have drifted apart. Wegener named this land mass “Pangaea”, which translates “All Lands” Then he gathered evidence from around the world from landforms, fossils, and climate. He then gathered his evidence and put it in a book titled “The Origin of Continents and Oceans” which was published in 1915. But Wegener’s theory was rejected because he could not provide evidence on the force that moved the continents. One piece of evidence from an ice age shows us that continental drift actually happened.
As a living laboratory Galapagos island have a rich scientific history! And today I am going to tell you the location, its brief history and what Charles Darwin’s discoveries on Galapagos island. The Galapagos Islands are located in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles west of Ecuador, which is on the western coast of South America. Their first recorded discovery was on March 10, 1535, by Fray Tomas de Berlanga, who happened upon them accidentally while sailing from Panama to Peru. Some historians believe the islands were visited and used by groups of Incas as early as a century prior to de Berlanga's discovery, but this has never been proven.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, & SOCIETY C389 Task #2 Requirements: A. Analyze a scientific theory of your choice by doing the following: 1. Summarize the major tenets of your chosen theory (suggested length of 3–5 paragraphs). The idea that the outer layer of the Earth is composed of lithospheric plates that float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere is called The Theory of Plate Tectonics. John Tuzo Wilson is given credit for explaining this theory during the 1960’s. The underlying ideas that Wilson built his theory on were proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912 with his Theory of Continental Drift.
It had laboratories on the ship and microscopes, chemistry supplies, trawls, and dredges etc. When Thomson got back to shore, everything he collected on the ship he put it on paper. All the information took up 30,000 pages of oceanography and discovered the mid-Atlantic Ridge! Forbes said that there would be no marine life 1,800 feet below in sea, well scientists are still working on this today to see if it is true or not and Sir Thomson also wrote a
Touching the Void Question: How does the dual viewpoint in Touching the Void bring to life the drama of Joe and Simon's experience? 2. Your Guide to Beach Safety Question: Which presentation and linguistic features does the RNLI use to engage its audience in Your Guide to Beach Safety. 3. Climate Change: The Facts Question: How does Kate Ravilious sustain the reader's interest in issues of climate change in her article, Climate Change: The Facts?