Skip to main content
Library homepage
 

Text Color

Text Size

 

Margin Size

 

Font Type

Enable Dyslexic Font
Geosciences LibreTexts

1: Measuring, Monitoring and Describing the Earth

( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\)

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter you should be able to

  • List the ways in which Geographers use maps
  • Demonstrate how longitude relates to time on earth
  • Describe how scale and map projection can be used to distort ideas
  • Relate electromagnetic radiation to remote sensing
  • Define a Geographic Information System

Thumbnail: Diagram of the Earth. (CC-SA-BY 3.0; Kelvinsong).


This page titled 1: Measuring, Monitoring and Describing the Earth is shared under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by K. Allison Lenkeit-Meezan.

Support Center

How can we help?