Five Themes of Geography
How humans interact with their environment
What is human?
Use lines of equal value to represent data like elevation, barometric pressure or temperature
What is an isoline map?
Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary
What are terms for describing countries economically?
Doesn’t use cardinal directions, maintains accurate size and shape.
What is the Fuller Projection?
The science of map making
What is cartography?
An area of land which displays a specific criteria with one or more distinctive characteristics
What is region?
A thematic map where the amount of dots represents the frequency of that data or variable.
What is a dot map?
- Environment pillar - Sustainable development must value conservation more than wasting resources or preserving all resources.
- Economy Pillar - To make an effort to set prices of goods based on the costs of the environment, and not just supply and demand.
- Society Pillar - Modifying the wants of cultures in regards to shelter, food, and clothing to objects that are sustainable
What are the Pillars of Stability?
Distorts shape and size of land masses, good direction and maintains distance, used for sea travel.
What is a Mercator Projection?
The movement of people, ideas, goods, or services from one place to another
What is flow?
The mobility of individuals, good and ideas
What is movement?
A thematic map where the size of the symbol is proportionate to the intensity of the data or variable being mapped.
What is a graduated symbol map?
- Shape of the area
- Direction between the points
- Distance between points may increase or decrease
- Relative size of the place
What are the 4 forms of distortion (map)?
Most accurate central point, only shows half earth at a time, stretches out when closer to edge.
What is a Planar Projection?
Physical characteristic of a place; Ex: climate, labor force
What is site?
Latitude and longitude can be used to describe it. It can be relative or absolute.
What is location?
A thematic map that uses the size of a political unit to display the value of a piece of data.
China, India, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines,
South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and Mexico
What are newly developed countries?
Sizes of land masses are accurate, shows correct geographic relationships better, inaccurate distances, distorted shapes, latitude and longitude are parallel.
What is a Gall-Peters Projection?
Is the location of a place relative to the places around it.
What is situation?
The distinctive physical and human characteristics of an area
What is place?
A thematic map which shows data by shading patterns or colors.
What are choropleth maps?
- Core countries - North America, West Europe, Japan
- Peripheral countries - Africa, Asia, Latin America
- Semi-periphery countries - Argentina, China, Brazil, Mexico, Iran, Indonesia
What is Wallerstein’s three part theory of core-periphery model?
Rounder in shape with distortion near north and south
poles.
What is the Winkel Tripel Projection?
The way something is arranged on earth's surface;
What is spatial distribution?