Geography
What questions to geographers answer?
why there?
What is cartography?
A mapmaker
What is a topographic map?
What is a dot density/dot distribution?
Elevation shown through textured area in a map?
Each dot represents an amount of some phenomenon.
Example of Relative Distance and Relative Location.
Distance: Pretty close, Across the ocean
Location: Next door, East of Alabama
What are the two branches of geography?
Physical Geography and Human Geography
What are reference maps used for?
They are used to show location for navigating.
What is a choropleth map?
Colors are used to represent degrees of a phenomenon.
Example of Absolute Distance and Absolute Location?
Distance: 5 miles, 3000 feet
Location: Coordinates, address
What is Human Geography?
The study of spatial characteristics of humans and human activities.
What are thematic maps used for?
They are used to tell a story about the degree of an attribute.
What is a isoline map?
Uses lines to connect places with the same degrees of data.
What is Clustering?
More populated areas.
What is Physical Geography?
The study of the spatial characteristics of elements in the physical environment.
What is a mental map?
Maps we carry in our mind of places we've been and places we've heard of.
What is a cartogram map?
Changes the size of places to show different phenomenon.
What is Dispersed?
Less populated areas.
What perspective do geographers use in their study of earth, and what is it?
The distinctive perspective which is a spatial approach that considers the arrangement of phenomena.
What is a map scale?
Shows how distance on a map compares to distance IRL.
What is a proportional symbol/graduated map?
The size of the symbol changes with the degree of the phenomenon.
What are activity spaces?
The places we travel to in our rounds of daily activity.