The Inquiry Arc
A student engaging in the Inquiry Arc must first choose this.
What is an authentic topic?
This type of reference map shows the political borders of countries.
What is a political map?
All thematic maps are about a specific something.
What is a theme?
This rate measures the total number of births in a country over a period of a year.
What is the crude birth rate?
Latitude and longitude help us place things on the Earth's surface according to this kind of location.
What is absolute location?
A question that is open-ended, broad, authentic, and that does not have only one possible answer is this type of question.
What is an essential or compelling question?
This type of reference map shows the natural features of the Earth.
What is a physical map?
I can find what a thematic map is about here.
What is the title?
This rate measures the total number of deaths in a country over a period of a year.
What is the crude death rate?
A dot density map can be helpful to visualize this kind of pattern.
What is a spatial pattern?
These questions are needed to answer the essential or compelling question.
What are supporting questions?
This type of reference map shows the variation in elevation of the Earth's surface.
What is a topographical map?
This kind of thematic map shows differences using different colors or shades of the same color.
What is a choropleth map?
TFR, the expected number of births a woman will have in her childbearing years, stands for this.
What is the total fertility rate?
We all have mental maps that are not based on latitude and longitude but rather on this kind of location.
What is relative location?
I need to answer these questions before I answer the essential or compelling question.
What are supporting questions?
This type of projection distorts the size of landmasses near the two poles.
What is a Mercator projection?
This thematic map uses a specific symbol of the same size to represent the value of something.
What is a dot density map?
If you subtract the CDR from the CBR, you get this rate of population growth or non-growth.
What is the rate of natural increase?
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) show information as layers, much like this Italian pasta dish.
What is lasagna?
I need evidence to support this.
What is a claim?
The African Union recently called to end the use of this kind of map.
What is a Mercator projection?
All thematic maps are representations of these.
What is data?
The TFR of Valle del Cauca is currently 1.7, which is below the rate needed to replace mom and dad.
What is the replacement rate?
This type of thematic map fails when the symbols overlap so much that you cannot visualize them individually.
What is a dot density map?