1.1 Types of Maps
1.2 & 1.3 Geographic Data
1.4 Spatial Concepts
1.5 Human-Environment Interaction
1.6 Scales of Analysis
1.7 Regional Analysis
Random Sauce
100
All maps distort at least one of THESE four characteristics (Hint: S.A.D.D.)
What are Shape, Area (Size), Distance, and/or Direction?
100
An official count of a population, typically conducted every ten years, to collect demographic information such as age, gender, ethnicity, income, etc.
What is The Census?
100
These are the 5 Themes of Geography.
What are Movement, Region, Human Environment Interaction, Location, & Place (MR. HELP)?
100
Air, water, soil, sunlight, coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of these.
What are natural resources?
100
The scale and scale of analysis of this map respectively.
What is?
Scale: Global
Scale of Analysis: National
100
A geographic area with similar characteristics that make it distinct from other areas is a definition of THIS concept.
What is a Region?
100
These are the two categories of maps.
What are Reference and Thematic?
200
What type of map is this?
What is a Dot-density map?
200
A computer system/software that stores, analyzes, and displays information from multiple digital maps or data sets to help geographers analyze spatial patterns.
What is GIS (Geographic Information Systems)?
200
1100 Sauk St, Lodi, WI 53555 is an example of THIS spatial concept.
What is absolute location?
200
Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Recreational, Cultural, Agricultural, etc. are all examples of this concept.
What is land use?
200
The scale and scale of analysis of this map respectively.
What is?
Scale: Regional
Scale of Analysis: National
200
This shared characteristic makes these countries of Latin America a formal region.
What is the Spanish language?
200
A map that is zoomed in on a local area (e.g. Madison), but with lots of detail and information would be an example of THIS scale map.
What is a Large Scale Map?
300
What type of map is this?
What is a Choropleth map?
300
These satellites orbit the earth and communicate locational information to receivers that locate one's absolute location.
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)?
300
"Our high school is located next to the middle school and across the street from the dentist" is an example of THIS spatial concept.
Relative location
300
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is a definition of this concept.
What is sustainability?
300
The scale and scale of analysis of this map respectively.
What is?
Scale: National
Scale of Analysis: County/Local
300
An area defined by people's subjective feelings, attitudes, and shared cultural identity, rather than by official boundaries is an example of THIS kind of region.
Examples: The American South, The Middle East, The Midwest
What is a Perceptual Region?
300
A map that is zoomed out on a large geographic area (e.g. Europe), but with very little detail would be an example of THIS scale map.
What is a Small Scale Map?
400
What type of map?
What is a Proportional (Graduated) symbol map?
400
The use of cameras or other sensors mounted on aircraft or satellites which orbit the earth above the atmosphere to collect digital images and information of the earth’s surface.
What is Remote Sensing?
400
Advancements in transportation like airplanes and high-speed rail, which make long distances faster, and communication technologies such as the internet, email, and smartphones, which allow for instantaneous communication across the globe are examples of THIS spatial concept.
What is time-space compression?
400
Reclaiming land from the sea in the Netherlands, creating indoor ski slopes in Dubai, and growing drought-resistant crops in arid regions are examples of THIS THEORY of human-environment interaction.
What is Possibilism?
400
The level at which geographers collect and study data (e.g. poverty rates by county or carbon emissions by country) are examples of this concept.
What are Scales of Analysis?
400
A geographic area organized around a central node or focal point, defined by a set of activities or interactions that occur within it is an example of THIS kind of region.
Examples: Pizza delivery area, TV broadcast zone, A city's metro area organized around a downtown core.
What is a Functional Region?
400
When describing the production of corn in the United States, THIS kind of pattern would be best to use.
What is a Clustered Pattern?
500
What type of map is this?
What is a Cartogram?
500
An INDIVIDUAL may use the following census data to make decisions about this. (Answers will vary)
Answers will vary, but could include: Where to live, work, start a business, start a family, go to school, etc.
500
People preferring to shop at nearby stores, patients seeking medical care closer to home, and local cultural events attracting more participants from the immediate area are all examples of THIS spatial concept.
What is distance decay?
500
This largely discredited theory argues that physical factors like climate and terrain directly and exclusively shape all aspects of human culture, society, and behavior.
What is Environmental Determinism?
500
The ratio or representative fraction (e.g., 1:10,000 or 1:1,000,000) that indicates the relationship between a unit of distance on a map and the corresponding distance in the real world is a definition of this concept.
What is map scale?
500
An area defined by one or more shared, measurable, and consistent characteristics is an example of THIS kind of region.
Examples: The Sahara Desert (Climate), Quebec, Canada (French language), The Great Plains (Physical geography)
What is a Formal Region?
500
The migration of people, money (remittances), trade, etc. are examples of THIS spatial concept.
What is flow/movement?