Regions
Name one of the requirements a region
Boundaries
Unifying characteristics
Cover space
Created by people
A type of map that use color to display data.
Choropleth Map
A periodic collection of a county's population
Census
Exact measurement of the physical space between two places
Absolute distance
Name an example of a functional region
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Type of map that use dots to display data.
Dot Distribution
Data that is based off opinion
Qualitative data
This is where a place is located in relation to another place.
Relative location
An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics ex: State, City, County
Formal region
A map that uses symbols of different sizes to display data.
Graduated Symbol
Data that is based of statistics
Quantitative data
decline of activity or function with increasing distance from its point of origin.
Distance Decay
an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity- Ex: Midwest
Perceptual/vernacular region
A map that uses lines to connects points of equal data
Isoline
Collecting data about the earth's surface from orbit.
Remote sensing
This is any of the 24 longitudinal areas of the world within which the same time is used.
Time Zone
An area organized around a node or focal point and are defined by an activity that occurs across the region
Functional region
A map that changes the size of political units based on the amount of data
Cartograms
A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.
Geographic Information System
This is the shrinking of time distance between locations because of improved methods of transportation.
Time space compression