Types of Maps
Shows the strength of an idea by distorting the size of the place
Cartogram
when you conduct your own survey or make your own measurements.
Primary Data
place where something originates. The point of origin.
Hearth
Resource that occurs naturally in the Earth
Natural Resources
An area of the Earth characterized by a sharing of cultural traits
Culture Region
The size of the circle or symbol represents how strong the theme isin an area
Graduated/GraduatedSymbol Map
when you use information that somebody else already collected and madeavailable like the U.S. Census.
Secondary Data
The movement back and forth of ideas, culture, or people. The term is used most oftenin reference to migration patterns.
Flows
natural fuels such as coal,oil, or gas, formed in the geological pastfrom the remains of living organisms.
Fossil Fuel
A region that has at least one similar physical or cultural trait that unifies it, often language or religion. They have no set borders, as these cultures often overlap in border zones.
Formal (Uniform)
Uses a dot to represent one unit of something. Areas with clusters of dots have a strong presence of the theme
Dot Distribution Map
information that can be expressed by numbers or that can be placed into specific categories. It provides you with quantifiable information.
Quantitative data
The principle that states that as things get further away from the hearth, the less relevant to individuals the culture spread from the hearth becomes.
Distance Decay
avoiding the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecologicalbalance.
Sustainability
An area with certain political, economic or social activity that unifies it. It contains at least one node that is the center of activity and connect sit to the market area(hinterland)around it. It typically connects the region by trade, communication or transportation.
Functional (Nodal)
Areas shaded to show how strongly they represent a certain theme
Choropleth Map
This includes taking notes, sketching maps, counting, and measuring things. For years this was the only way that geographers could get spatial data.
Field Observations
the further two things are from one another, the less interaction they will have with each other, and therefore the less effect they will have on each other.
friction of distance
all the things that humans create that become part of the landscape like buildings, roads, signs or fences.
Built Environment
An area defined by a person’s beliefs or feelings, created by anindividual’s own associations and attachment to the area. May bedefined by prejudices or personal thoughts, and the borders vary fromperson to person, based on their own perceptions.
Perceptual(Vernacular)
Lines connect points of equal value (Usually Weather Patterns)
Isoline Map
descriptive information, usually in the form of text. It tells you about features and mostly involves an intuitive process.
Qualitative Data
Increased cultural connectivity through transportation and communication innovations
Time-Space Compression.
the notion that successive societies each leave their cultural imprint on a place, contributing to its cultural landscape.
Sequence Occupancy
Subsets of larger regions with distinguishing characteristics. For example, Latin America contains Mexico, Central America and South America. Brazil is a subregion of Latin America that is primarily Roman Catholic, but in Brazil they speak Portuguese and not Spanish.
Subregions