my human geogrephy

Longitude is a geography coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the earth's surface. Longitude is measured by imaginary lines circling the earth and running through the poles and used to measure distance in degrees. The prime meridian passes through Greenwich England and is given the position of 0 degree of longitude.

The ways of describing where things are is grids and time zones. Geography is the study of where things are found on earth's surface. at this point we need a map, a map is a two dimensional or flat scale model of the earth's surface. Maps serve two purposes, as a reference tool and as a communication tool.

Today we talk about the situation, the situation is the location of a place relative to other places. situation is a valuable way to indicate location for two reasons: finding an unfamiliar place and understanding its importance. Many location are important because they are accessible to other places, for example how the importation and exportation between USA and China. because Neighbors is so cheap. 

Today we talk about site. Site is the physical character of place. we learn one fact that human have the ability to modify the characteristic a site. How do geographers describe where things are? Geographers can describe the location of a place by site. the important site characteristics include climate,water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude and elevation.

Today we had our test back, i really like how i did on the test, i though that i didn't do good on the easy but i did good, the key of my success on this test its i did study for the test. we correct the test together in class so if you did get some question wrong you will correct it so you can use the test for studying when it is the final exam.

  The Mercator map, is usually use for show up better work for air and sea navigation,high ways, rivers. it is a standard map projection for navigation because of its unique property of representing any course of constant bearing as a straight segment.   The peter world map is one of the most stimulating,and controversial, image of the world. This show the really seize of the continent. All the school use this map now