Maps & Projections
A square map that distorts size close to the polls but maintains country shapes.
What is the Mercator Projection?
Where a place is based on latitude and longitude coordinates.
What is absolute location?
What type of diffusion is rapid and widespread?
What is contagious diffusion?
The theory that the environment defines the boundaries of human civilization.
What is environmental determinism?
The civilization credited with the first written maps, inscribed on clay tablets.
What are the Babylonians?
A map that could depict political data from an election in a state.
What is choropleth?
Density, concentration, and pattern are aspects of this spatial pattern term.
What is distribution?
Defined as people moving from one country to another, taking their culture and ideas with them.
What is relocation diffusion?
The three pillars of sustainability.
What are environment, society, and economy or people, planet, profit?
What is culture?
Generally created through GIS, this type of map could depict the concentration of economic activity in different parts of a country.
What is a proportional symbol map?
This type of region has defined boundaries and either a universal or predominant defining characteristic.
What is a formal region?
As an idea gets further away from the point of origin, it lessens in importance or appears less frequently.
What is distance decay?
A substance in the environment that is useful to people.
What is a resource?
"School is a short drive away" is an example of what?
What is relative location?
This map may distort the sizes and shapes of countries based on the data represented, like immigration data or population of every country.
What is a cartogram?
The agriculture, industry, and services in a particular region.
What is the economic landscape?
A term that explains how long it takes for an idea to disseminate across external cultures.
What is space-time compression?
The names of the four interrelated systems, further separated into biotic and abiotic systems.
This is the term for where an innovation, idea, or process that diffuses or spreads emanates.
What is a hearth?
This man invented the word geography, believed the world was round, and divided it into five climatic regions.
Who was Eratosthenes?
The process of thinking about where things are in space.
What is spatial analysis?
Offices located in Chicago, IL McDonalds has over 36,000 restaurants all over the US and in over 100 countries. What is this an example of?
What is a transnational corportation?
The theory of humans overcoming environmental obstacles to live in otherwise inhospitable locations.
What is possibilism?
In globalization, elements of different cultures, different groups combine to form a new cultural feature. What's this called?
What is syncretism?