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Themes of Geography
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Concerned with specific site or exact place, this theme tells someone where they might be - absolutely or relatively.
What is location
100

a systematic count of a population that collects information about every member of that population

What is a census?

100
creating maps is their job.
What is a cartographer?
100

a map that provides a general overview of a location, displaying geographical information such as boundaries, names, and features

What is a reference map?

100

When transporting an item takes less and less time using technology.  For example, people used to move via horse, then train, then car, then plane.

What is time-space compression?

200
Formal, functional and perceptual are variations of this.
What is a region?
200

was created to help sailors navigate the globe by displaying accurate compass bearings and local directions

What is the purpose of the Mercator projection?

200

Because of time-space convergence, this language is beginning to takeover as a "global language."

What is English?

200

This projection is an equal-area, composite map projection used for world maps. Normally it is presented with multiple interruptions, most commonly of the major oceans

What is the Goode Homolosine projection?

200

the social or cultural connectivity of places despite how far they are.

What is relative distance?

300
Goods and ideas travel with this theme.
What is movement?
300

the idea that the physical environment, such as climate and terrain, directly influences human activities and outcomes

What is environmental determinism?

300

These isolines connect areas with equal elevation.

What are contour lines?

300
This projection uses color intensity to show differing amounts of an event.
What is a choropleth map?
300
When using a thematic map, geographers look for these to help make an assumption or generalization.
What is a pattern?
400
Answers the question "What is it like there?"
What is a place?
400

these two thematic maps portray numerical data for comparison between places.

What are cartogram and graduated cylinder maps?

400
This describes the history of landform transformation by the humans that lived there.
What is sequent occupance?
400

This projection shows the top of the world.

What is the azimuthal (polar) projections?

400
Concentration and this go together to show the extant of something and the intensity of its arrangement.
What is density?
500
An example would be deforestation to make more cattle pastures.
What is human-environment interaction?
500

The idea that humans can overcome any harsh or physical environment using intuition.

What is possiblism?

500

This data collection method collects rich, contextualized data directly from real-world settings, to gain a deeper understanding of complex social phenomena, uncover nuanced details often missed by other methods, and develop critical thinking skills by observing interactions and patterns in their natural environment

What are field observations?

500

Small projects a large area and large projects a small area.

What is map scale?

500

This helps engineers and city planners make informed decisions about how people act and move - makes a decision.

What is Geographic Information Systems?