5 Themes of Geography
What are the five themes of geography?
Movement, Location, Place, Region, Human-Environment interaction
What type of map shows dots?
Dot map
What map projection is great for navigation and distorts the area (size) of the continents?
Mercator Projection
My house is near TC Cherry.
Relative Location
My address is 123 Happy Lane
Absolute Location
What type of map shows lines?
Isoline Map
What map projection is commonly used for navigation and looks like you are viewing it from above?
Azimuthal Projection
Zero Degrees Latitude
Equator
The spread of something
Diffusion
What type of map shows different ranges of colors that represent data?
Choropleth Map
This projection cuts out parts of the ocean to keep the area and shape more accurate.
Goode Homolosine Projection
Zero Degrees Longitude
Prime Meridian
What theme of Geography does diffusion fall under?
Movement
What type of map show symbols at different sizes to represent varying levels of data?
Graduated Symbol Map
An equal-area map projection that accurately displays the relative surface areas of landmasses, but distorts their shapes, stretching them near the equator and compressing them near the poles
Galls Peters Projection
A region that is created by people's opinions
Perceptual Region
What two theories are related to human-environment interaction?
Environmental Determinism and Possibilism
What type of map shows the countries/States at different sizes to represent the data?
Cartogram
A world map projection that creates a visually appealing, rectangular-like map by compromising on all types of distortion (shape, size, distance, and direction), keeping them at relatively low levels across most of the map
A region that must have at least one ESPN characteristic
Formal Region