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INTRO AND MAPS CHAPTERS -----> Earth Intro Lat/Lon/Maps

Latitude, Longitude, Maps

I. GRID SYSTEMS, MAPS, UCT, REMOTE SENSING

A. Grid Systems

  1. latitude and longitude = angular measurements
  2. 15° longitude/hour
  3. time
  4. Public Land Survey System, a.k.a. township and range (details)
    • 115th Ave (Agua Fria River) = principal meridian
B. Maps
  1. definition
  2. projections
  3. conformality (shape)
  4. equivalence (size/area)... example (#2 , #3)
  5. great circle routes
  6. legend
    • date of publication!
    • symbology
    • scale -- graphic (or linear), verbal, fractional (or relational)
  7. contour lines
  8. relief
C. Remote Sensing
  1. hot air balloons to satellite technology
  2. Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  3. Global Positioning System (GPS)
D. Systeme International (SI) -- Metric System
  1. Learn to make simple associations
  2. Learn the prefixes
    • deka/deci (10); hecto/centi (100); kilo/milli (1000)
    • mega (1,000,000); giga (1,000,000,000)
  3. Primary units include: kelvin, meter-per-second, ......

INTRO AND MAPS CHAPTERS -----> Earth Intro Lat/Lon/Maps
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