Themes of Geography
Concerned with specific site or exact place, this theme tells someone where they might be - absolutely or relatively.
What is location?
Objects in an area are close together.
What is clustered?
The size on a map related to its actual size on Earth.
What is scale?
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 Mercator?
Because of time-space convergence, this language is beginning to takeover as a "global language."
What is English?
the social or cultural connectivity of places despite how far they are.
What is relative distance?
A computer system with geographic data.
What is GIS (geographic information system)?
A uniform region where everyone shares some characteristics.
What is a formal region?
A system that uses satellites to determine the exact position of something.
What is GPS (global positioning system)?
The location of a place relative to other places.
What is situation?
Objects in an area are far apart.
What is dispersed?
Portraying the round earth on a flat surface.
What is projection?
The idea that humans can overcome any harsh or physical environment using intuition.
What is possiblism?
The frequency with which something occurs in space.
What is density?
This helps engineers and city planners make informed decisions about how people act and move - makes a decision.
What is Geographic Information Systems?