Mappy Days
Its a Date-a
Spaced Out
Tree Huggers
Scary Scales
Region Champs
100
Identify this thematic map
What is a Choropleth Map?
100
Satellite images and LiDAR are obtained through this method of data collection
What is remote sensing?
100
McIntosh High school can be found at 33° N and 84° W- this information communicates what about McIntosh?
What is absolute location?
100
The primary assumption of environmental determinism is that this is the dominant factor in determining human mental and physical vigor
What is climate?
100
Because scales hide certain data or spatial trends on maps, graphs, and visual sources, they will always be considered one of these
What is limitation?
100
Political subdivisions of countries, such as provinces or US states, and an example of this type of region.
What is a formal region?
200
Identify this map projection
What is the Mercator Projection?
200
This category of geographic data contains descriptive data like interviews, photographs, and field observations
What is Qualitative Data?
200
This spatial model was first developed based on Ravenstein's observation that long-distance migrants nearly always settle down in cities, suggesting these places have greater attraction
What is the Gravity Model?
200
Case studies such as the Aztec's terraforming of salty marshlands into freshwater causeways or the Dutch's creation of dykes and polders to reclaim land from the ocean are examples of this theory of human-environment interaction
What is Environmental Possibilism?
200
Identify the scale of analysis on the map above?
What is national scale?
200
Regions that are perceived as connected because of cultural traits such as the presence of a particular language dialect would be considered this type of region.
What is a perceptual region?
300
This type of thematic maps shows data by distorting the size of countries to be larger where data values are higher and smaller where data values are less pronounced
What is a Cartogram?
300
This geographic data tool shows spatial distributions using layers of mapable data, such as zip codes, roads, and the locations of businesses.
What is the GIS?
300
This term refers to the movement of cultural traits, such as a language being spoken far from its hearth or a TNC residing in another country
What is cultural diffusion?
300
What is Sustainability?
300
Compared to a cartographic scale of 1:25,000, a scale of 1:2,500,000 would be considered this
What is smaller/ small scale?
300
Macon Water Authority (MWA) provides water utility services to people living within central Georgia. In this way, MWA's service region is this type of region.
What is a nodal region?
400
This key line of longitude is located at 180° in the Pacific Ocean
What is the International Date Line?
400
Maps displacing demographic data such as population or ethnicity most likely rely on this data collection method
What is the Census?
400
This spatial term measures the social, cultural, and economic connections between two places- under Time-Space Compression and globalization, this measurement has rapidly decreased between places around the world
What is relative distance?
400
These refer to elements of a place's environment such as natural resources, climate, and physical features as well as the cultural landscape- land-use and built environment. They are important to understanding the internal qualities of place and are best shown on large scale maps
What are Site Factors?
400
An urban planner designing land-use projects in city neighborhoods would likely need a map with this type of cartographic scale
What is large scale?
400
This modern geographic process has led to increasing similarities between economies and cultures in places around the world due to increased interconnectedness
What is globalization?
500
Because the Earth is a globe but maps are flat, all projections share this limitation
What is distortion?
500
One consequence of changes to the environment is the need to change maps to reflect current data- this was a necessary response to this practice of the Dutch in which dykes and polders were constructed to increase farmable land that was previously under water
What is land reclamation?
500
Best seen on small-scale maps, this trait of place explains how a place is connected to other places and broader social or cultural contexts rather than the physical traits internal to its absolute location
What is situation?
500
Environmental determinists would consider this major bioclimatic zone to be the most optimal for human civilization do to its less extreme weather patterns and 4 distinct seasons
What is the temperate zone?
500
Suppose the federal government wishes to build a homeless shelter that helps the most people within a clustered area as possible. Which scale of analysis would likely be most helpful for determining the location of this shelter?
What is local scale?
500
This geographic model introduced by Wallerstein suggests that national economies are best understood as parts of larger global regions, with a core that dominates trade and periphery that is exploited for resources
What is world systems theory?