Western Civilization

Flora Lau 9/27/19 Mapping the World Part 2 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

Flora Lau 9/26/19 Telling Time and Time Zones                  In class today, I learned the definitions of time zones, UTC, GMT, Daylight Saving Time, and standard deviation. Also, we learned how geographers calculate standard deviation. Time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is is the standard time in Great Britain which is used to calculate the time in the rest of the world. Daylight Savings time is the time as adjusted to achieve longer evening daylight summer by setting the clocks an hour ahead of the standard time. Standard deviation is a quantity calculated to indicate the extent of deviation for a group as a whole.                  Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries because it is easier for areas in close commercial or other communication to

Flora Lau 9/25/19 The Geographic Grid               Yesterday and today, I learned the definitions of geographic grid, latitude, longitude, parallels, and meridians. The geographic grid is a system of imaginary arcs drawn in a grid pattern on Earth's surface. Latitude is the geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the Earth's surface. Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on Earth's surface. Meridians are the lines running form north ole to South Pole that connects points with the same longitude. Parallels are the imaginary lines extending around the Earth parallel to the equator.              Geographers describe where things are by using the geographic grid. The major significant line of latitude is the equator. The major significant line of longitude is the prime meridian. Latitude is parallel and longitude is meridian. When plotting absolute location, latitude is first in coordi

Flora Lau 9/18/19 Interpreting Maps Today, in class, I learned that geographers describe where things are by using map scale. I also learned what map scale, projection, meridian, longitude, parallel, latitude, and prime meridian is. Map scale refers to the relationship or ratio between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. Projection is a method for taking the curved surface of the Earth and displaying it on something flat. Meridian is a circle of constant longitude passing through a given place n the Earth's surface and the terrestrial poles. Longitude is the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian. Parallel is the imaginary line extending around the Earth parallel to the equator. Latitude is the angular distance of a place north or south of the Earth's equator. Prime Meridian is a planet's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude. 

Flora Lau  9/18/19  Mapping the World Part 1 1. Canada 2. United States 3.Mexico 4.Guatemala 5.Belize 6.El Salvador 7.Hondorus 8.Nicuagua 9. Costa Rica 10.Panama 11.Cuba 12. Jamaica 13. Haiti 14. Dominican Republic 1.Colombia 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 

Flora Lau 9/10/19 Mental Mapping       Today I learned in class about mental mapping. A mental map is a personal visualization of spatial information. We use mental maps to find our way from point A to point B. For example, I have go to school everyday and I've been there so many times that I know how to get to school from my house just from memory. The areas around school that I remember are called activity spaces. Activity spaces are local areas within which people move or travel to during the course of their daily activities. Overall, mental maps provide people with essential means of making sense of the world and of storing and recalling information about the patterns of Earth's physical and human features. 

Flora Lau 9/9/19 Intro to Maps      Geographers describe where things are by measure of langitude and longitude. Cartography, the science of mapmaking, also helped geographers describe where things are. Since a map is a two dimensional model of the Earth's surface and the Earth is a three dimensional sphere, a map is never accurate. Early maps were used as reference tools because they weren't correct, but they identified the object's absolute and relative location. Maps were also used as combination tools to convey the distribution of human activities or physical features. 

Flora Lau 9/4/19 Intro to Human Geography           Today I learned that geography is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and the phenomena of the Earth and planets. A branch of geography is human geography and it deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economics, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place. Another branch of geography is physical geography. Physical geography is the  branch of natural science which deals with the study of processes and patterns in the natural environment like the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere, as opposed to the cultural or built environment which is the domain of human geography. The difference between human and physical  geography is that human geography is the study of people, their environment, and how they live where as physical geography is the study of processes and patterns of the natural environment. I