Themes of Geography
Big Ideas
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

Technology is making the world feel smaller

time-space compression

100
creating maps is their job.
What is a cartographer?
100

This type of map shows items by small points

What is a dot density map?

100

The physical characteristics of a place

What is Site?

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/ Robinson?

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 guys were "determined" to prove the "environment" alone defined humans.

Determinist

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

The idea that connections to places gets smaller the farther away places are

What is Distance Decay?

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

The category of things you are comparing on a map, chart, or graph

What is scale of analysis?

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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