Types of Maps
Maps that use colors, shades, or patterns to show the location and distribution of spatial data.
What is choropleth map?
Navigation, Directions shown accurately Shapes are relatively the way they appear on the globe
What is Mercator
the description of where something is in relation to other things.
What is Relative Location
The process geographers use to divide and categorize space into smaller units
What is Regionization
The study of the interactions between societies and their local environment
What is Cultural Ecology
Maps used to show the specific location and distribution of something, with each dot representing a specific quantity.
What is Dot Distribution map?
Illustrating spatial distribution, Size of land masses are accurate, Shapes of land masses are inaccurate, especially near poles
What is Peters
the precise place where something is found.
What is Absolute Location
A geographical unit based on one or more unifying characteristics, functions, or patterns of activity that are taking place
What is a Region
How geographers look at how humans use the land they live on or how humans perceive nature.
What is Environmental Perception
Maps that use symbols of different sizes to indicate different amounts of something. Larger sizes indicate more of something and smaller sizes indicate less.
What is Graduated Symbols map?
Best suited for regional mapping, Size and shape are both close to reality, Longitude lines converge at only one pole (directional issues)
What is Conic
the distance between two points, measured using metrics like time, effort, or cost.
What is Relative Distance
a geographical area inhabited by people who have one or more traits in common, such as a language, religion, or system of livelihood.
What is a Formal Region
Materials or substances that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
What is Natural Resources
Maps that use lines that connect points of equal value to depict variations in data. Distance between the lines indicates a change.
What is Isoline maps?
General use, No glaring distortion, Oval shape appears more like a globe, Area, shape, size, direction all slightly distorted (more pronounced near poles)
What is Robinson
the distance between two points, communicated using precise quantitative units of measurement
What is Absolute Distance
a geographic area that has been organized to function around a focal point or a node and defined by an activity that occurs in the area.
What is a Functional Region
The belief that the physical environment is the dominant force shaping cultures and that humanity is a passive product of its physical surroundings
What is Environmental Determinism
Maps where the sizes of places are shown according to some specific statistic
What is Cartograms?
Size of land masses is distorted
What is Mercator
the Direction based on a person’s surroundings and perception
What is Relative Direction
an area that is based on the shared feelings and attitudes of the people who live in the area based on culture identity
What is a Perceptual Region
The belief that any physical environment offers a number of possible ways for a society to develop and that humans can find ways to overcome environmental challenges
What is possiblism