Themes of Geography
Who is Waldo Tobler?
different scales of analysis reveal variations in spatial patterns
What is why scales matter?
All maps have this in some way.
What is distortion?
When transporting an item takes less and less time using technology. For example, people used to move via horse, then train, then car, then plane.
What is time-space compression?
Formal, functional and perceptual are variations of this.
What is a region?
This projection stretches at the poles and distorts land area the least.
What is a Mercator map?
These are also known as raw materials.
What are Natural Resources?
These types of maps display spatial patterns and quantitative data.
What are thematic maps?
the social or cultural connectivity of places despite how far they are.
What is relative distance?
The movement of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another
What is flow?
Characteristics of a location, such as climate and resources
What is site?
These isolines connect areas with equal elevation.
What are contour lines?
This projection uses color intensity to show differing amounts of an event.
What is a choropleth map?
When using a thematic map, geographers look for these to help make an assumption or generalization.
What are patterns?
The boundaries of places like the Middle East or the American Southwest are based on one's opinion
What is a perceptual region?
Things that connect different places, like rivers and roads.
What is situation?
This theory states that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have
What is Distance Decay?
These maps use symbols in proportion to the size of the data.
What are graduated symbol maps?
Concentration and this go together to show the extant of something and the intensity of its arrangement.
What is density?
the study of how humans interact or adapt to the environment
What is cultural ecology?
The idea that humans can overcome any harsh or physical environment using intuition.
What is possiblism?
Your local pizza hut delivery service.
What is a functional region?
when zooming out and looking at data on a large portion of a map or zooming in and looking at data on a small portion of a map
What is scale of analysis?
This helps engineers and city planners make informed decisions about how people act and move - makes a decision.
What is Geographic Information Systems?