Map Concepts
Themes of Geography
Map
Basic Concepts
Map Types and Projection
100
A computer system with geographic data.
What is GIS (geographic information system)
100
Exact spot where a place can be found
What is absolute location
100
Three types of maps
What is mental, reference, and thematic maps?
100
Someone who makes/study maps
What is a cartographer?
100
Map that show natural features, such as mountains, rivers, and deserts
What is physical map?
200
A system that uses satellites to determine the exact position of something.
What is GPS (global positioning system)
200
Describe what a place is like. Physical and Human characteristics
What is Place?
200
Four types of thematic maps?
What is cartogram, dot, choropleth, flow, and isoline?
200
What makes a good map?
T- Title
O- Orientation
D- Date
A- Author
L- Legend
I - Index
G- Grid
S- Source
200
Illustrations used in books and advertisement to show specific locations mentioned in the text
What is locator maps?
300
The size on a map related to its actual size on Earth.
What is scale.
300
People, goods, and ideas move from one place to another.
What is movement?
300
What kind of map is this? 
What is a dot map?
300
a term used to describe how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place
What is glablization?
300
What map is this?
●Purpose:
○Navigation
●Strengths:
○Directions shown accurately
○Shapes are relatively the way they appear on the globe (near the equator)
●Distortion:
○Size of land masses is distorted
What is Mercator Map?
400
A map in which distortion is in the polar regions but all lines of latitude and longitude meet at right angles.
What is the Mercator map.
400
a group of places that have physical features or human characters in common
What is region.
400
On these maps, each area is shaded or colored to suggest magnitude or intensity.
What is choropleth?
400
McDonalds having 35,000 restaurants in 120 countries
What is transnational corporation?