Vocabulary
Designing and making maps
what is cartography?
Explains map symbols, colors and lines used on a map. It is also called a legend.
What is a key?
This type of map shows the boundaries and locations of countries, states and may show human made and government links
What are political?
This tells what kind of information the map is showing. It is usually the "headline" of the map.
What is the title?
This is the study of the location of people and places and the patten in which they are arranged on the earth (i.e. - the class you are in now, Einstein)
What is Geography?
This type of map shows the location and topography of the Earth's features.
What is a physical map?
These are places on a map ofen represented by a star within a circle
What are capitals?
These are the types of coordinates used to determine absolute location
What are latitude and longitude?
These are usually represented by a dot
What are citites?
List 2 of the 5 types of research methods discussed in class for Geography
What is direct observation, mapping, interviewing, analyzing statistics and using technology?
the study of the interelationship between people and their physical environment (it is also one of the 5 themes of Geography).
what is human-environment interaction?
Location of one place compared to another
What is relative?
This type of region defined by a common characteristic, possibly a product produced there (corn belt)
What is a formal region?
This shows the relationship between map measurements and actual distances of the Earth
What is the scale bar?
This type of map shows one principal idea (possibly SEC conference affiliation, oil producing countries, or Democratic vs. Republican states).
What are thematic maps? Will also take qualitative or flow-line as an answer
Community of plants and animals that depend on one another, and their surroundings, for survival.
What is an ecosystem?
Name the 5 themes of Geography as discussed in class
What is location, place, region, human environment interaction and movement?
This type of region is a central place and the surrounding areas linked to it (possibly KC and Lee's Summit, Overland Park and Independence).
What is funcational?
Indicates the four cardinal directions
What is the compass rose?
This line measures distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
What is Longitude?
This is measured at 0 degrees latitude, while the Poles are at latitudes 90 North and 90 South
What is the equator?
Geographers often study history, culture, politics as well as this subject - which looks at types of jobs and types of services used at a place. If you take this class in college, you will learn about supply and demand
What is economics?
This type of region is defined by feelings and images rather than by objective data (Bible Belt, heartland, exc.)
What is perceptual
This type of map illustrates the movement of people or goods
What is flow line?
This is computer tools that process and organize data by using satellite images.
What is GIS or Geographic Information Systems?