Map Skills
This term describes the unavoidable stretching or squishing of shape, distance, relative size, or direction when moving from a 3D globe to a 2D map.
What is distortion?
This term refers to the exact, precise position of a place on Earth, often measured by latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
This specific density measurement is calculated by dividing the total number of people by the amount of land suitable for agriculture.
What is physiological density?
This term describes the money sent home by a migrant to their family in their country of origin.
What is a remittance?
What is Ms Millers dog first AND last name?
What is: Milo Miller
While this map projection is excellent for marine navigation, it is often criticized for severely exaggerating the size of landmasses near the poles.
What is the Mercator Projection?
Geographers use this term to describe the physical character of a place, such as its climate, water sources, or soil.
What is site?
This term refers to the permanent portion of the Earth’s surface occupied by human settlement.
What is the ecumene?
When highly educated or professional individuals (like doctors and engineers) emigrate from a developing country to a developed one, it is known as this.
What is brain drain?
GUESS: What is Ms Millers favorite candy?
What is York Peppermint Patties?
This specific type of map uses contour lines to represent changes in elevation and terrain.
What is a topographic map?
This type of region, also called "uniform," is defined by a shared characteristic like a state law or a specific crop grown throughout the area.
What is a formal region?
If a country has a wide-based population pyramid that looks like a true triangle, it is likely in this stage of the Demographic Transition Model.
What is Stage 2?
Unlike a refugee, this type of person has been forced to flee their home but has not crossed an international border.
What is an IDP (Internally Displaced Person)?
Guess what is Ms Millers favorite color and least favorite color?
What is: Blue (favorite) and Yellow (Least favorite)
A map of a single neighborhood that shows every house and street would be considered this type of "scale."
What is a large-scale map?
A newspaper's delivery area or a pizza shop's delivery zone are examples of this type of region, which is organized around a central node.
What is a functional (or nodal) region?
This 18th-century economist famously feared that the human population would eventually grow too large for the world's food supply to support it.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
In the United States, the most common type of intraregional migration involves people moving from cities to these surrounding residential areas
What is urban to suburban?
Guess: What is Ms Millers Fiance name and what college sport did he play?
DOUBLE POINTS: His position
What is Peter (Pete) and Baseball (Catcher)
This computer system allows geographers to stack different layers of data (like roads, zip codes, and elevation) on top of one another for analysis.
What is GIS (Geographic Information Systems)?
This concept describes how the "friction of distance" has been reduced by modern technology, making a trip that once took 40 days take only one week.
What is space-time compression?
This ratio compares the number of people who are too old or young to work against the number of people in their productive years.
What is the dependency ratio?
This "decay" concept suggests that the further away two places are, the less likely people are to interact or migrate between them.
What is distance decay?
Ms Miller mentioned where and when (what month) she will be getting married. You must answer both correct to get the full points!
What is: Yosemite National Park in May!