Vocabulary
Austin is a _____ influenced by Stephen F. Austin, the "founder of Anglo-American Texas"
What is toponym
Shows the world at one level of data
ex: World
What is global?
A map that uses graduations or shades of color to represent data
What is choropleth
No major distortions
Cutting down trees to build homes
What is human-environment interaction?
A fixed location usually reckoned by latitude and longitude
Shows data by continents or world regions
Maps that provide general information. Examples: physical maps that shows geographic features and political maps that show human created boundaries and cities, capitals, etc
What is reference map?
It is more accurate than the Mercator Projection in showing the sizes of countries in higher latitudes
What is Robinson?
What is it like? Ex: Climate, physical features, etc
What is place?
If I were giving you directions from new albany to target giving directions such as turn left at the rallys and when you get to the second streetlight turn right. Which of the following best describes the type of information provided in the directions?
What is relative location?
A map that shows the subnational data
Ex: the states within the United States (could also show even more localized like counties and zip codes)
What is local?
A map that distorts the size of land masses to represent the value of data
What is cartogram
The size and shape of countries in the higher latitudes are greatly exaggerated
What is Mercator?
Where is it located?
Location
The central vertical line on the map
What is Prime Meridian
Shows data for one or more countries
What is national?
A map that uses the size of symbol to represent data values
What is graduated symbol map?
What is distortion
Deals with expansion of technology and migration of people
What is movement?
The shrinking "time distance" between locations because of improved methods in transportation and communication
What is time-space compression
What is national?
Uses lines to connect points of equal value and depict variations across a space
What is isoline map
Which map projection's size is accurate but shape is very distorted?
What is Gall Peters
How are the areas linked together?
What is region?