Intro to Maps
The most precise way to describe absolute location is to use these.
What are latitude and longitude?
This technology uses satellites to take photos of areas such a flood and tornado disasters
What is remote sensing
Due to the Internet and other modern technologies, this spatial concept is no longer as influential today as it once was.
What is distance decay?
Plants and animals are considered this type of natural resource.
What is a renewable resource?
This is another way to refer to homogenous regions, which must be united by one or more traits.
What are formal or uniform regions?
This projection uses color intensity or shading to show differing amounts of data.
What are chloropleth maps?
This type of computer technology can be used to track and map multiple data points, such as traffic patterns and vehicle accident rates.
What is GIS?
Before I-75 was completed in Tennessee in 1974, it took considerably longer to get from Chattanooga to Atlanta. This is an example of this spatial concept.
What is time-space compression?
A geographer collecting data related to soil erosion on American farmland is likely studying this geographic concept.
What is sustainability?
The American South is an example of this type of region.
What is perceptual or vernacular?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What is the difference between a formal and a functional region?
This is the degree of nearness between places based on social or cultural connectivity, such as time/money/mode of transportation.
What is relative distance?
This includes all information that can be tied to a place, including human activities and traits.
What is geospatial data?
Show smaller areas in more detail. Ex. Displaying cities and towns.
What is large scale?
The city of New Orleans existing below sea level is an example of this theory.
What is possibilism?
The type of region that has a center or node and then the characteristic diminishes the further you get from it.
What is Functional Region?
This projection stretches at the poles and distorts land area the least, making it the best for navigation.
What is Mercator?
Notes, photographs, sketches, and interviews are all examples of geographers doing this.
What is fieldwork or field observations?
Derived from a native Creek word for nearby Lookout Mountain meaning “rock rising to a point," the name "Chattanooga" is an example of this spatial concept.
What is a toponym?
This theory is criticized for overstating the role of the environment in the development of a society.
What is environmental determinism?
Using national US data to support that life expectancy in your local community is increasing is an example of the inaccurate use of this.
What is scale of analysis?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What is an accurate example of how geographers use scale of analysis?
The global Earth on a map is an example of this scale, while a local map of Wylie is an example of this scale.
What are small-scale versus large-scale maps?
American suburbs, with their cookie-cutter houses and unremarkable streets, tend not to inspire this spatial concept.
What is a sense of place?
The arrangement of a phenomenon across the Earth's surface.
What is Spatial distribution?
Observes the way humans interact with their surroundings (Humans rely on rivers for water and transportation, modify the environment by heating and cooling buildings, and adapting to the environment by wearing proper clothing for the weather.
What is human environment?
The social or cultural connectivity of places despite how far they are.
What is relative distance.