Basic Geography
What is the study of human interaction with the physical environment as well as other humans?
Human Geography
This tells you what the map is about.
Title
This map shows you borders and human made concepts like cities or counties.
Political Map
This is what it is called when you show a 3D object as a 2D representation .
Projection
This is something that repeats or follows a trend.
Pattern
This is the exact distance two things are from one another.
Absolute Distance
These things represent something else on a map.
Symbols
This map highlights the natural features found on Earth.
Physical map
This is what happens when you take a 3D object and make it 2D (errors found in the map)
Distortions
This is a series of events that cause change.
Processes
This is the location of a place based on its surrounding landscape.
Relative Location
This identifies the orientation of the map. (North, South, East, West)
Compass Rose
This map type consists of dots of the same size that represent density.
Dot Density Map
This was the first type of map projection created. It distorts objects found close to the north/south pole in order to accurately show things near the equator.
Mercator Projection
This is the scale of a city/town/county or other small representation.
Local
This is the process by which things around the world become more and more connected.
Globalization
This defines the images found in the map.
Legend/Key
This map uses different shades of a color to represent different data values.
Choropleth Map
This map type cuts out the oceans in order to preserve land mass. This is used for data viewing in Human Geography.
Goode's Map (Interrupted Projection)
This is the scale of an entire country
National
This is an area that is grouped together by common characteristics.
Regions
This relates the distance on the map to its real world distance.
Scale
This map changes the size and/or shape of things on a map to show different data values
Cartogram Map
This map type distorts everything in order to make it visually appealing. This is used in classrooms and textbooks.
Robinson
This is the scale of an area that shares common characteristics. This can be either big or small.
Regional