Vocabulary
The name of maps that have "themes" to them.
What is a thematic map?
This themed map uses color to highlight information, often at a local or global level.
What is a choropleth map?
This type of projection map is used by sailors and navigators, often the first projection map that tends to stretch out polar regions.
What is Mercator projection maps?
What is remote sensing?
This continent mines blood diamonds in different ways, yet is very harmful for the environment and larger national issues between countries.
What is Africa?
The images satellites take in space to show landscapes and formations of land.
What is remote sensing?
This map places "dots" to represent numbers and data.
This type of projection map looks like a "crown" but tends to cut the Earth in half, particularly at midlatitude countries.
What is conic projection maps?
The type of technological computer system that tends to scale, stack, and proportion data in ways that help cities, towns, communities, even governments find the best space to consider for spaces and environments.
What is Geographic Information Systems?
This theory differs from environmental determinism stating that all nature can be controlled by humans.
What is possibilism?
The "fancy" word to describe something in detail, often in a complex way.
What is analyze?
This map tends to be both used for hikers or for weather channels to show "lines" or changes.
What is an isoline map?
This projection map tends to have a "first name" but really stretches out countries near the equator and squashes them near the poles but shows relative sizes of continents.
What is a Peters-Gall projection map?
The type of technology that helps people find location and where they are going.
What is Global Positioning System?
The railroad in the United States created this type of zoning to help with local and national laws.
What is time zones?
This is the theory of when more distance grows, less connection things have.
What is distance-decay?
Different than a dot density map, this map uses "proportions" or circles over locations to show gradual changes in size.
What is a graduated symbol map?
A type of projection map that tends to make a whole globe of the Earth, and has the "last name" of maps but also tends to look at visuals versus accuracy.
What is the Robinson Projection Map
We utilize it everyday on our phones and tools to help us in the real world. Mr. Prunty uses it as a form of "Spotify" while he drives around.
What is smart phones and computer applications?
Only 16% of Americans know where this country is that the United States is currently funding to fight against a larger country?
What is Ukraine?
This is a type of measurement systems on map that represents words, data, or facts in a way that equals distance in the real world.
What is a scale?
This map tends to show populations, sizes, or data of countries and or regions by scaling them up or down to represent data then true land area.
What is a cartogram map?
This is the reason projection maps tend to be inaccurate.
What is it with displaying 3D globes onto 2D maps?
Technology helps the community find and solve certain issues in their land.
This is the concept of thinking like a geographer, starts with an E and ends with a G.
What is (Economic, Social, Political, Nature, Demographic, Culture, and Gender).