Map Skills
What is a map?
What is a 2-D presentation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc?
an accurate worldwide navigational and surveying facility based on the reception of signals from an array of orbiting satellites
What is a Global Positioning System (GPS)?
What is a political map?
Has official boundaries
What is a formal region?
What is Globalization?
What is the interdependence and connectedness of the world?
Technology that creates a specialized map by combining different data layers
a projection on a flat surface that distorts the size and shape of Earth's surface, gives shortest distance between two points
What is a Planar Map Projection?
A map that shows natural physical features
What is a Physical Map?
A place with surrounding areas tied to it
What is a functional region?
The process of moving out of one country and into another with the intention of staying there permanently.
What is immigration?
Describes the area over which something is spread
A projection onto a cone that shows the shape of the Earth fairly accurately but distorts the landmasses at the edges
What is a Conical Map Projection?
A map that shows information based on a theme
What is a thematic map?
does not have formal boundaries; boundaries may change depending on who you ask
what is a perceptual region?
To move into a new area (not permanent) (think "moving")
What is migration?
shows a small area in more detail
What is a large scale map?
A projection onto a cylinder that shows the entire Earth on a map (3 types)
What is a Compromise Map Projection?
What are two different things that define a place?
What are physical and human characteristics?
The movement from one area to another (not necessarily forever) (think "exit")
What is emigration?
shows a large area with less detail
What is a small scale map?
Shows the density of cities
What is a Land Use Map?
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
What are some examples of physical characteristics?
What are landforms, climate, natural disasters, and vegetation?