Maps
Place
Diffusion Types
definitions/Useful Info
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A flat-scale model of the earth's surface.
What is a map?
100
Physical characteristics of a place.
What is a site?
100
Spread of characteristics between places.
What is expansion diffusion?
100
Interaction based off of population and distance.
What is Gravity Model?
100
Displays info across the ocean but has much smaller land areas.
What is Robinson Projection?
200
The science of map making.
What is cartography?
200
A place's location relative to another place.
What is situation?
200
Area around a specific central point.
What is functional diffusion?
200
Satellites and receivers determine the exact position of something on earth.
What is GPS?
200
An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
What is the Equator?
300
The size of a feature on the map in relation to it’s size in the real world.
What is scale?
300
The spread of features over time.
What is diffusion?
300
The trait adoption fails but the underlying theme is left to be interpreted.
What is stimulus diffusion?
300
East to west coming from the equator.
What is longitude?
300
Has very little shape distortion and is a rectangular shape, but it’s relative size is distorted near the poles.
What is Mercator Projection?
400
24 of theses exist.
What is time zones?
400
Word for the name given to a certain place.
What is toponym?
400
The area that people identify with themselves like road names around your house and job.
What is vernacular diffusion?
400
Parallel lines defining location.
What is latitude?
400
The place where time zones were first adopted.
What is Greenwich?
500
These always have flaws but project the Earth's surface.
What is map projections?
500
Physical features that define interactions between humans.
What is environmental determinism?
500
The other name for functional regions.
What is nodal regions?
500
Starting point of a trend.
What is hearth?
500
Has meridian lines that are very straight, but latitude grows to be more distorted.
What is Conic Projection?
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