Maps
Maps that show an label natural features
What are physical maps?
Focal point of a functional region
What is a node?
How things are arranged in a particular space
What is pattern?
The cardinal directions (north, south, east, west)
What is absolute direction?
Internalized representations of portions of Earth’s surface.
What is a mental map?
Maps that show a theme or specific purpose and focus on the relationship among geographic data
What are thematic maps?
A group of places in the same area that share a characteristic
What is a region?
The patterns and movement of ideas, people, products, and other phenomena
What is flow?
The precise spot where something is according to a system
What is absolute location?
The number of things in a specific area
What is density?
Maps that use various colors, shades of one color, or patterns to show the location and distribution of spatial data
What are choropleth maps?
Regions that have commonalities with one or multiple physical, cultural, or economic trait.
What is a formal region?
The belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development
What is environmental determinism?
Left, right, up, down, front, or behind based on people’s perceptions.
What is relative direction?
An official count of the number of people in a defined area
What is a census?
Maps that use symbols of different sizes to indicate different amounts of something.
What are graduated symbol maps?
Regions organized around a focal point and are defined by an activity that occurs there
What is a functional region?
Relates to trying to use resources in new ways that allow their use in the future while minimizing negative impacts on the environment
What is sustainability?
The degree of nearness based on time or money and often dependent on the mode of travel
What is relative distance?
System that uses data from satellites to determine and record an exact location
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)?
Maps used to show the specific location and distribution of something across the territory of the map.
What are dot distribution maps?
Regions defined by the informal sense of place that people ascribe to them. Reflects people’s feelings and attitudes about a place.
What is a perceptual(vernacular) region?
The belief that argues that humans have more agency, or ability to produce a result on the environment
What is possibilism?
A description of where something is in relation to other places or features
What is relative location?
A computer system that can store, analyze, and display information from multiple digital maps or geospatial data sets
What is Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?