physical location of geographic phenomena across space
What is spatial distribution?
100
4 major geographical organizations in the U.S came together.
What is the geographical event that occured in 1980's.
100
This type of location changes constantly.
What is Relative Location?
100
Mapmakers use data to construct these maps.
What are thematic maps?
200
Geographers are always trying to find the reasons for these.
What are patterns?
200
the process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of political ideas through communication, transportation, and trade
What is Globalization?
200
The year the five themes of geography were published.
What is 1986?
200
Reference maps show this type of location.
What is Absolute location?
200
A computer program that stored geographic data and produces maps to show the data.
What is GIS?
300
Geography is the quest to answer this question.
What is " Why of Where"
300
the study of human use and understanding of the world, the spatial differentiation and organisation of human activity and its interrelationships with the physical environment.
What is human geography?
300
This theme of the 5 themes of geography refers to the mobility of people goods and ideas across the surface of the planet.
What is Movement?
300
These are maps all people carry in their mind gained through daily activity.
What are Mental Maps?
300
Data directly collected by the geographer making the map or conducting the study.
What is Primary data?
400
Geographers can obtain this by looking at maps
What is the arrangements of things coming about, what proccesses create and sustain the pattern of distribution, what relationships exist between different places and things.
400
The branch of geography dealing with natural features.
What is Physical Geography
400
using spatial perspectives geographers study phenomenon ranging from...
What is Political elections and urban shantytowns
400
The four sizes of scale geographers use to study places.
What are Local, regional, national, and global?
400
data collected by a source that previously conducted a study and made data available for future use.
What is secondary data?
500
Geographers ask questions like these when trying to find reasons for patterns.
What is "Why and how things come together in certain places to produce particular outcomes?"
500
Satellite based system that can tell the exact location of a place.
What is connectivity
500
these are the five themes of geography
What is...
Location
Place
Movement
Human Environment
Region
500
Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space.
What is the spatial perspective?
500
An issue in cartography that involves the size of geographic units being represented on a map.