Thematic Maps
this map uses color to represent data
What is Choropleth Map?
This map projection attempts to create the most visually appealing representation of Earth, keeping distance direction, and size.
What is Robinson Projection?
A politically organized independent territory with a government, defined borders, and a permanent sovereignty.
What is a state?
What is a superimposed boundary?
Where a cultural trait originates.
What is Cultural Hearth?
this map distorts the geographic shape/size of an area to represent the value
What is Cartogram Map?
What is Peters Projection?
A cultural entity.
What is a nation?
Boundaries that are established on straight lines of latitude and longitude instead of physical or cultural boundaries.
What is a Geometric boundary?
Spread of cultural traits or ideas through the movement of people.
this map uses symbols of different sizes to represent numerical values
What is Proportinal /graduated map?
A map projection that distorts placement and location but also shows real size and shape.
What is Goode Homolosine Projection?
A territory in which a group that views itself as a nation is the same as the politically recongized boundaries that state calls it own.
What is a nation-state?
When boundaries are established before people settle in the area.
Aspect of culture spreads outwards from where it originated as new people adapt that trait.
What is Expansion Diffusion?
this map uses dots to represent objects or counts
What is Dot Density/Distribution Map?
This map projection distorts land masses but is useful for navigation.
What is Mercator Map Projection?
Consist of a population that shares a cultural or ethnic background but lives in more than one country.
What is a multi-state?
Boundaries that are drown in areas that have been settled by people and where cultural landscape already exist.
What is a subsequent boundaries?
An Idea of cultural trait spreads adjacently.
On this map, its harder to see things that are smaller
What is Cartogram map?
What is a map projection?
Taking a 3 dimensional map and turning it into a 2D map which can distorts image.
People united by culture, language, history, and tradition but no possessing a state.
What is a stateless nation?
Boundaries over water.
What is a martime boundary?
An idea or trait spreads from a person or place or power or authority to other people or places.