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WGU C255 Geography - All the notes you need 100% Complete Guaranteed Success. 1 / 4
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Key Objectives
Saturday, April 20, 2019 10:58 AM
• Identify the five themes of geography and apply them to demonstrate an ability to think spatially about a variety of historical events and patterns.○ Location - a concept that refers to the physical presence of a geographical place or feature on the surface of the Earth.○ Place -a concept that refers to the wide range of human activities and humanenvironment interactions that occur in a particular location.○ Human-Environment interaction - A concept that forms the traditional foundation of the Geography discipline. Refers to the direct connections between humans and our biophysical world.○ Movement - A concept that refers to the core idea that human beings and all animal life are always in motion.○ Region - A concept that examines the multiple ways that we divide and organize our world.• Understand spatial characteristics of population, including population density, population distribution, and population redistribution.○ Population density - a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume.○ Population distribution - the pattern of where people live. The measurement of the number of people in an area ○ Population redistribution - Migration • Identify and explain the significance of prominent features on a world map, including the
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○ Equator ▪ Earth's imaginary midline perpendicular to the axis and midway between the poles 3 / 4
○ Tropic of Cancer ▪ The parallel of 23.5N latitude ○ Tropic of Capricorn ▪ The parallel of 23.5S latitude ○ Prime Meridian ▪ The meridian passing through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, from which longitude is measured ○ International Date Line ▪ An imaginary line on Earth's surface where, by international agreement, travelers traveling eastward subtract one calendar day and travelers traveling westward add one calendar day. The line generally follows the 180 meridian, but it deviates for political and economic convenience.○ Latitude (Parallels) ▪ The location of a place measured as angular distance north and south of the equator ○ Longitude (Meridians) ▪ The location of a place measured as angular distance east and west from the prime meridian ○ Arctic Circle ▪ One of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. The parallel of latitude that runs 66.5 degrees north of the equator ○ Antarctic Circle ▪ Imaginary circle around the Earth, parallel to the equator, at latitude 66.32S. Marks the southernmost point at which the sun appears above the level of the horizon at the winter solstice ○ Hemisphere
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