Location & Distance
The “address” of the White House is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but its position on the globe is described by this.
➡️ What is absolute location?
A map that shows where Starbucks locations are clustered would be classified as this type. (Hint: tells a story)
➡️ What is a thematic map?
When TikTok dances spread rapidly from person to person across social media, this is an example of…
➡️ What is contagious diffusion?
The number of people living on a farm per square mile of farmland is which density measure?
➡️ What is agricultural density?
A student who moves for college but returns home during breaks is an example of this movement.
➡️ What is periodic movement?
Saying “Duluth is northeast of Atlanta” describes this type of location.
➡️ What is relative location?
Which type of map would you use to find street names and parks in your neighborhood?
➡️ What is a reference (or large-scale) map?
When Mexican food spreads to the U.S. but gets “Americanized” (like Taco Bell), this is…
➡️ What is stimulus diffusion?
Which stage of the Demographic Transition Model has both low birth rates and low death rates?
➡️ What is Stage 4?
A family moving from Mexico to join relatives already in Texas is an example of this type of migration.
➡️ What is chain migration?
Why might Paris and London seem “closer” today than 200 years ago, even though the physical miles are the same?
➡️ What is time–space compression?
Which kind of map uses colors or shading to show levels of something like population density?
➡️ What is a choropleth map?
Christianity spreading to the Americas via European colonizers is an example of this diffusion.
➡️ What is relocation diffusion?
A country with high infant mortality, high birth rates, and low literacy rates is most likely…
➡️ What is a less developed country (LDC)?
A government policy that encourages smaller families to slow population growth.
➡️ What is an anti-natalist policy?
Innovations are less likely to spread to faraway places compared to nearby ones.
➡️ What is distance decay?
All flat maps have some form of this problem, whether it affects shape, size, distance, or direction.
➡️ What is distortion?
The Grand Mosque in Mecca is an example of this key concept where a religion or idea originates.
➡️ What is a hearth?
The theory that population grows faster than food supply was argued by this person.
➡️ Who is Thomas Malthus?
People leaving Syria because of civil war and crossing into Turkey are considered this.
➡️ What are refugees?
One tool layers different types of spatial data for analysis, while the other pinpoints exact positions on Earth.
➡️ What are GIS and GPS?
The idea that the physical environment controls human behavior is called this, while the idea that humans can adapt and make choices despite the environment is called this.
➡️ What are environmental determinism and possibilism?
A population pyramid with a very wide base and narrow top usually shows this type of country.
➡️ What is a less developed (or developing) country with high birth rates?
This model shows how birth and death rates change as a country develops from an agricultural society to an industrial one.
➡️ What is the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?
When migrants send money back home to support their families, these payments are called this.
➡️ What are remittances?