Maps
Flat representations of the Earths surface, showing features like cities rivers, and mountains.
A Map
information that is gathered and stored.
Data
Things that make an area or place unique and personal.
Sense Of Place
Study of humans interacting and adapting to the environment around them.
Cultural ecology
The Science of making maps
Cartography
Maps that represent a quantity or spatial characteristic.
Dot density maps.
A government wide survey that is meant to obtain information and data.
The Census
A locations name which usually reflects the culture or history.
Toponym.
Built in 1936 and is used to supply water and power to the nearby town of Las Vegas, Nevada
The Hoover Dam
An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics
Formal region
maps that make the size of the country inflated or distorted to convey the variable.
Cartogram maps
Satellite navigation systems.
GIS
when plots of land are close together.
Clustering
The humans role to modify an environment to our needs.
possibilism
The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and
measuring distance north and south of the equator
Latitude
maps that use color to indicate information.
Chloropleth
Using technology to get information from a distance, such as drones.
Remote sensing.
Spatial interactions.
The connection, movement, and flow of everything between areas.
Belief that landforms shape peoples behavior and patterns.
Environmental determinism
Unable to represent the three-dimensional Earth on a flat surface without reconfiguration
from correct shape, area, distance, and direction.
Distortion
maps that use sizes to emphasize the variable.
Proportional symbol maps.
What field work in geography is most comprised of.
Physical act of visiting or gaining information by ones self.
the way geographers categories and divide land into smaller areas.
Regionalization
These man made islands using over 53 million pounds of sand and 12 million pounds of rock. Located in Dubai.
The Palm Islands
Map projection of which the meridians are usually drawn parallel to each other
and whose distance from each other increases with their distance from the equator; cylindrical
projection causing distortion at higher latitudes
The Mercator projection