Map Types
This map projection is known for preserving straight lines and angles, making it suitable for navigation, but it distorts the size of land masses, particularly near the poles.
What is a Mercator Projection Map?
All information that can be tied to a specific location.
What is Spatial Data?
The use of the Earth’s resources in ways that ensure their availability for future generations to use.
What is sustainability?
At this scale, geographers analyse the structure of government and politics.
What is the Political Scale?
Identified by its full name, this technology, abbreviated as "GPS," has revolutionized navigation and spatial analysis by utilizing signals from a network of satellites. What is the unabbreviated name of this system?
What is the Geographical Positioning System?
These invisible lines run parallel to the equator.
What are Latitude Lines?
The theory that the environmental conditions of a place can limit its culture but that culture is primarily determined by social conditions.
What is Possibilism?
Analyzing global connections and the impact of transnational corporations falls under this scale of geographical analysis
What is the Global Scale?
This type of map, which scales land area according to a specific statistic, is valuable for the comparison of data.
What are Cartograms?
The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin
What is Distance Decay?
A philosophy that states that human behaviors and culture are a direct result of the surrounding environment.
What is Environmental Determinism?
Geographers using this scale might investigate regional disparities in access to resources within a specific country
What is the Subnational Scale?
Choropleth, Isoline and Dot Distributions are all types of ______ maps.
What are Thematic Maps?
An area defined by official boundaries, created on the basis of one or more shared characteristics
What is a formal region?
A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.
What is Cultural Ecology?
This scale of analysis involves an examination of social, cultural and economic practices.
What is the urban scale?
The statement, "First, head west then north. Make a right at the light and continue before making another right onto Main," is an example of ______ direction.
What is absolute direction?
Literally, "country behind," a term that applies to a surrounding area served by an urban center.
What is Hinterland?
Humans are innovators with free will and used as a tool of colonialism, racism, and imperialism are criticisms of ______.
What is Environmental Determinism?
Used to analyze household dynamics and is the small unit of analysis
What is the micro-scale of geography?