Themes of Geography
Types of Maps
Spatial Patterns
Map Projections
Terminology
100
Aboslute and relative descriptions of the position and distribution of people and places on the Earth's surface.
What is Location
100
These are further broken into Political, Physica,l and Road Map. s
What are Reference Maps?
100
Exact, Precise Location.
What is Absolute?
100
Those who create and make a map.
What is a cartographer?
100
Describes where the settlement is in relation to other settlements and features of the surrounding area.
What is the Situation?
200
An imaginary line drawn around the Earth equally distant from both poles. This divides the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator.
200
These maps communicate information about a place, including their spatial aspects.
What are Thematic Maps?
200
Cardinal Directions are an example to show this.
What is absolute direction.
200
Map projections do THIS to the shape, area, distance, and direction.
What is distort?
200
The location's name, typically reflective of the culture and history of a place.
What is a Toponym?
300
Physical and Human characteristics that make one place different from all other places on Earth.
What is Place.
300
This type of thematic map uses various colors, shades or patterns to show the distribution of data.
What are Choropleth Maps?
300
The way something is spread out over an area.
What is distribution?
300
What is Robinson Projection?
300
The process geographers use to divide and categorize space into smaller areas of analysis.
What is regionalization?
400
When people are dependent on, modify, and adapt to their environment.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
400
When lines connect points of equal value to depict variations in the data.
What are isoline maps?
400
Social or cultural connectivity of places, despite how far they are from each other.
What is Relative Distance?
400
What is Mercator?
400
The increasing sense of accessibility and connectivity which seems to bring humans in distant places closer together.
What is Time-Space Compression?
500
When relationships are shaped by the constant movement of people, ideas, materials, and physical systems.
What is Movement?
500
The area is distorted to show a variable of information. The size of countries is shown according to that specific variable.
What is a Cartogram?
500
This type of location changes over time and is in relation to humans or physical features.
What is relative location?
500
What is Peter's Equal Area/ Gall-Peters Projection?
500
The interaction between two places declines as the distance between the two places increases.
What is Distance Decay?