GTCG WEEK 2-INTRODUCTION

• Geography came from greek words
• Geography came from greek words “geo”, meaning “earth” and “graphy” that means “to write”
• Geography is defined as the study of Earth’s landscape, people, places and environment.
• How many elements of geography?

  6
• The world in spatial terms deals with where things are positioned in the world, including absolute and relative location.
• A drawing or other representation, usually on a flat surface, of all or part of the earth's surface, ordinarily showing countries, bodies of water, cities, mountains, etc.

  Map
• Map that is flat.

  Flat Map
• Focuses on the boundary of a certain nation. It usually includes labels for features such as cities and major towns, units such as states or provinces, and bodies of water.

  Political Map
• It shows main roads access to points of interest such as city, landmarks and parks.

  Road Map
• Generally shows mountains and bodies of water in a certain place.

  Physical Map
• Presents information pertaining to the climate of a particular area

  Climate Map
• Type of map that shows the economic resources available in the area like corn, tobacco, and iron.

  Economic Map
• The personal geographic collection of information and facts about a certain place or location. It represents the way you picture geography in your mind.

  Mental Map
• A type of map used to show the different points of interest and attractions of a particular city or town.

  Tourist Map
• This is a three- dimensional scale model of the Earth. It is the most accurate maps around.

  Globes
• Half of the earth is called the

  Hemisphere
• The northern and southern hemispheres

  Equator
• is the angular distance, in degrees, minutes, and seconds of a point north or south of the Equator. Lines of latitude are often referred to as parallels.

  Latitude
• The eastern and western hemispheres are separated by

  Prime Median
• is the angular distance, in degrees, minutes, and seconds, of a point east or west of the Prime (Greenwich) Meridian.

  Longitude
• It is an imaginary longitudinal line that

  lies at about 180 degrees of the Prime Meridian.

  International Date Line
• Continental drift describes one of the earliest ways geologists thought continents moved over time from a single landmass called

  Pangea
• refers to the total area of a country or geographical region (which may include discontinuous pieces of land such as islands).

  Land Mass
• What is the major land masses of the earth?

  Continent
• How many continents are there?

  7
• Largest continent

  Asia
• What continent is top half of this continent is mostly dry, hot desert. The middle area has savannas, or flat, grassy plains?

  Africa
• What continent has irregular coastline with many prominent offshore islands, including Greenland, which is the world’s largest island?

  North America
• What continent is the home to the world’s highest waterfall, Angel Falls, in the country of Venezuela. It also home Amazon River, is the largest river in the world in terms of volume?

  South America
• What continent is the windiest, driest, and

  iciest place on Earth largest desert?

  Antartica
• What continent contains just seven percent of the world’s land?

  Europe
• What continent is the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere?

  Australia
• A person who stays at the destination for less than a day or more than 24 hours

  Excursionist
• Stays at the destination for at least 24 hours or overnight, but the stay does not exceed a year

  Tourist
• is a major requirement in traveling outside one's country. It is an official and legal document issued by the government to its citizens.

  Passport
• Entry in other countries needs an endorsement issued by the consular office of the country to be visited, which allows the bearer an entry.

  Visa
• Type of passpor tissued to Filipinos traveling internationally

  Regular Passport
• Type of passport are provided to diplomatic officials of the country

  Diplomatic Passport
• Type of passport issued for official business to the employees of the Philippine government

  Official Passport
• 70 % of the Earth’ssurface is covered by water alone and the other 30 % are covered by land.