What is the use of satellites to determine specific points on the Earth and provide direction to them?
100
a map that shows the whole world
What is global scale
100
a simplified way to explain complex patterns, make informed decisions and explain future behaviors.”
What is a model?
100
Site vs. sitation
What is specific place vs. relative location?
200
Big or small: the characteristics and affects of one on the other
What is Scale?
200
A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.
What is GIS?
200
A map that shows a neighborhood is an example of this.
What is regional scale.
200
a model that illustrates how customers may shop at a store based on convenience
What is Distance-Decay Model?
200
density
What is the amount of people and things within borders
300
"an area of Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics.”
What is region?
300
Carl Sauer suggested that cultural landscapes become the focus of geography, thus spurring this geographic area of study in 1925.
What is human geography?
300
1in:1000miles
1in:100miles
1in:10feet
1in:100ft
The ratio scale best used to measure distance between NM and Laos.
What is 1 in 1000 miles
300
The population of 2 cities divided by their distance which determines the extent to which they interact/pull on each other.
What is gravity model?
300
Projection
What is the way maps are distorted/inaccurate
400
a map’s smallest discernable unit. In other words, it is the smallest item you can see on a map
What is resolution?
400
The father of 'geography' who wrote the book "Geography" and coined the term.
Who is Ptolemy?
400
The scale best used for the following scenario:
Gravitational pull of New York City on Buffalo, New York.
What is large/regional scale.
400
Describe the accuracy of models
What is useful or predicting, but cannot be 100%accurate
400
Create a chlorepleth map
What is... a map using color to compare/contrast
500
the location of a place relative to other places.
What is situation?
500
How did the maps change between Eratosthenes and Ortelius? Why?
What is the detailing of land borders and distance due to exploration and technology.
500
Scale best used for the situation:
The Pearl River Delta led to the civilization of Eastern Asia in similar fashion as New Orleans along the Mississippi River in North America.
What is large/regional scale with small/global inserts?
500
Three types of models
What is formulaic, symbolic, verbal
500
Formal, Functional, and Vernacular Region
What is a political region, an associated region, an assumed/projected region