Types of Maps
This type of map shows features like cities, roads, and borders.
The exact location of a place using coordinates.
What is absolute location?
A flat drawing of Earth's surface.
→ What is a map?
What is a cartogram?
→ A map where size of areas is distorted to represent a variable like population.
What type of map would help show us who voted for what?
Political Map
A place’s location compared to other places.
→ What is relative location?
A digital tool used to analyze spatial data.
→ What is GIS (Geographic Information System)?
A characteristic made by humans (e.g., buildings, roads).
→ What is a human characteristic of place?
Define Globalization
The worldwide spread of people, products, ideas, and culture
A map projection that distorts shape and size near the poles.
What is the Mercator projection?
The idea that places seem closer due to technology.
→ What is time-space compression?
A system that uses satellites to find precise location.
→ What is GPS?
A characteristic found in nature (e.g., rivers, mountains).
→ What is a physical characteristic of place?
What is an example of a "flow"?
A) A mountain range
B) A restaurant
C) A shipment of goods across countries
D) A natural lake
C) A shipment of goods across countries
This type of thematic map uses colors to show data values.
What is a choropleth map?
The concept that interaction decreases as distance increases.
What is distance decay?
What is a geographic field study?
→ On-site data collection.
A student describes New Orleans as having a vibrant French-influenced culture, spicy cuisine, and historic architecture.
Is this an example of…
A) Space
B) Place
PLACE
What are Mrs. Von Franks Cats Names?
Binx and Salem
A type of thematic map where symbol size represents quantity.
What is a graduated symbol map?
Which concept refers to how things are spread out over space?
→ What is distribution?
A data-collecting method using drones or satellites.
→ What is remote sensing
A geographer is analyzing the pattern of restaurants across a city using only coordinates and spacing between points on a map.
Is this an example of…
A) Place
B) Space
SPACE
This imaginary line measures how far east or west you are from the Prime Meridian
Longitude