Mapmaking Rules
The Pillars of Geography
Geographic
Perspectives
Interrelationships
Patterns, Trends and Spatial Significance
100

This feature of a map tells you what the map is about

What is the title?
100

Someone littering at the park is an example of this pillar of Geography

What is Human-Environment Interaction?
100
If Doug Ford thought building a highway was a good idea because business people and people who commute to work complained to him about bad traffic,  his geographic perspective would be this.

What is a Political Perspective

100

A lumberjack cutting down a tree would be an example of this basic interrelationship

What is Human to Nature

100

Analyzing how global temperatures have increased over the last 150 years would be an example of this.

What is a trend

200

This feature tells you which direction is north

What is the Orientation, or What is the compass?

200

Regions are designated by looking for these....

What are the same physical or human characteristics

200

If a scientist is worried about the amount of pollution in Lake Ontario and how it is affecting fish populations, his Geographic perspective would be this.

What is Environmental

200

A flood destroying a person's house would be an example of this basic interrelationship

What is Nature to Human

200

If we were looking at an issue about flooding and property damage, and we looked why there are restaurants all along beaches, which of the three important location questions are we trying to answer?

What is "Why There?"

300

The part of the map that tells you what all the symbols and colours stand for

What is the Legend

300

342 Provost Lane is an example of this pillar of Geography

What is Absolute location

300

If a tourist feels a beach needs more fun things to do like water skiing and parasailing so he can have a great time, he has this Geographic Perspective

What is a Social Perspective?

300

Lightning strikes a forest, causing a forest fire is this type of basic interrelationship

What is Nature to Nature?

300

Looking at the reasons why there is major flooding at different beaches around the world would be an example of this.

What is a pattern

400

The colour that is used to label things on a map

What is black

400

"Most of the people at Canada's Wonderland are thrillseekers" is an example of this pillar of Geography

What is "Human characteristic of a place

400

If a person at Microsoft is worried about the number of revenue the Xbox brand is generating per year and thinking about company layoffs,  their perspective is this.

What is a Economic Perspective

400

Two students having to share the same gym at school is an example of this basic interrelationship

What is Human to Human

400

If we were to look at the issue of water pollution along a lake, and noticed the location of several factories along the lakeshore, which of the three important location questions are we trying to answer?

What is "What's Where"

500

The formula for calculating scale

What is real world distance between 2 points divided by measured distance on a map between the same 2 points.
500

When someone texts a message to a friend is an example of this pillar of geography

What is Movement of Ideas

500

If a businessperson is thinking about how his partner is late for work, which is causing his company money and is causing him to be really stressed out,  he has a combination of these two geographic perspectives.

What are Social and Economic perspectives.

500

An investment banker receives $10000 from a person to be invested in a variety of stocks would have this type of more complex interrelationship

What is an economic interrelationship?

500

If we are trying to find relevance as to why we are looking into a location related to a geographic issue in the first place, which of the three important location questions are we trying to answer?

What is "Why Care?"

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