My Human Geography Blog

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) Massachusetts 44) Rhode Island 45) Connecticut 46) New Jersey 47) Delaware 48) Maryland 49) Alaska 50) Hawaii

Today we learned about time zones. We looked at maps that showed the different time zones. The main center of time zone is the Prime meridian that is where UTC is and GMT. UTC is coordinated universal time. It is a 0 degrees longitude and is the center of the time zones, anything to the left is subtracting and hour and anything to the right is adding an hour. GMT and UTC are the same but GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time. Daylight Savings is when we change the clock and hour ahead or behind to accommodate for the amount of sunlight we have. Standard Deviation is the + or - an area is form UTC or the Prime Meridian for instance if you move one time zone over it can be +1 hour. Every 15 degrees is another time zone so every time zone away from UTC they add another hour.

Today in class we played round with the Geographic Grid. The geographic grid is made up of longitude and latitude lines. The main latitude line is the Equator and the main longitude line is the Prime Meridian or First Meridian. Geographers use the geographic grid to give absolute location. They use degrees like 30 degrees north and 76 degrees west. That's one way geographers describe where things are.

Today we learned a lot about maps. We learned about map scales- it's a key that shows you what the sizing, like cm:km, 1:10000 it shows you how zoomed in it is. We can use it to see how far things are. We also learned about map projections. Map projections are are the different ways maps are shown. They can be shown in circle or even squares. Every projection just changes the distortion. That's why some projections are used for different things. Meridians are the lines on maps going down and so is longitude. It is the way we measure how Far East and west something is. Latitude and parallels are the lines going from left to right on a map. They measure how far north or south something is. The prime meridian is a longitude line that is 0 degrees longitude. 

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

Mental Mapping is when you have a vision of the piece of land or a specific area. It is kinda like when you visualize a town you live near or in. We often use mental mapping to give or receive directions. We use them to see the world. We also us them to have a sense of where we are. Like you in a town and it's near the bakery but you have to go to the 7-11. We use mental mapping to make a meaning in Human Geography. We also use it to get from one point to another. Another thing in Human Geography is activity spacers is the daily cycle you kind of live. Like when you wake up and leave your house then go to school it all revolves or comes back to your house. You might make stops like school or your job but you always go back.

Cartography maps are the map drawn when they were piecing together the map of the world. They were still figuring out the land so the maps were wrong but now the maps are to an extent right. They developed maps by traveling and exploring the land. They knew there was more land but they didn't know the shape of it. When they explored they could then map it out. Now we use absolute location for the exact location. For that we use longitude and latitude. We also us relative location. When we use relative location it's describing a location form another location. Now we use maps to show where things are and we also use maps to show a story. Thematic maps show how well a country is developed. We still use maps for location and directions.

Human Geography Defining Geography, Human Geography, and Physical Geography. When I hear Geography I think about the study of maps or the study of land. When you add the word human into it it gets a whole new meaning. I then think it's the study of people around the world. The study of how people have different ways to solve different problems. They way different parts of the world create music or play games. It's the study of culture. Physical Geography: the way is see it is as the study of the physical features of land and waterways. Physical Geography is again like the certain landmarks of a certain region or area.