Themes of Geography
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Terminology
Maps & Projections
Grab Bag
100
Concerned with specific site or exact place, this theme tells someone where they might be - absolutely or relatively.
What is location
100
creating maps is their job.
What is a cartographer?
100

This type of map shows the movement of an item.

What is a flow map?

100

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?

200
Formal, functional and perceptual are variations of this.
What is a region?
200

This projection stretches at the poles and distorts land area the least.

What is Mercator?

200

Because of time-space convergence, this language is beginning to takeover as a "global language."

What is English?

200
The map in your head.
What is a cognitive or mental map?
200

the social or cultural connectivity of places despite how far they are.

What is relative distance?

300
Goods and ideas travel with this theme.
What is movement?
300
These isolines connect areas with equal elevation.
What are contour lines?
300
This projection uses color intensity to show differing amounts of an event.
What is a choropleth map?
300
When using a thematic map, geographers look for these to help make an assumption or generalization.
What is a pattern?
400
Answers the question "What is it like there?"
What is a place?
400

He was the first medical geographer that proved cholera spread through water in London, England.

Who is Dr. John Snow

400
This describes the history of landform transformation by the humans that lived there.
What is sequent occupance?
400
These two projections show the top of the world.
What are azimuthal (polar) and conic projections?
400
Concentration and this go together to show the extant of something and the intensity of its arrangement.
What is density?
500
An example would be deforestation to make more cattle pastures.
What is human-environment interaction?
500

The idea that humans can overcome any harsh or physical environment using intuition.

What is possiblism?

500
A closer, more attractive option presents itself.
What is an intervening opportunity?
500
Small projects a large area and large projects a small area.
What is map scale?
500

This helps engineers and city planners make informed decisions about how people act and move - makes a decision.

What is Geographic Information Systems?

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