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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

Objects in an area are close together.

What is clustered?

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

The size on a map related to its actual size on Earth.

What is scale?

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

This projection stretches at the poles and distorts land area the least.

What is Mercator?

200

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

What is English?

200
The map in your head.
What is a cognitive or mental map?
200

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

What is relative distance?

300

A computer system with geographic data.

What is GIS (geographic information system)?

300

A uniform region where everyone shares some characteristics.

What is a formal region?

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

A system that uses satellites to determine the exact position of something.

What is GPS (global positioning system)?

400

The location of a place relative to other places.

What is situation?

400

Objects in an area are far apart.

What is dispersed?

400

Portraying the round earth on a flat surface.

What is projection?

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

The frequency with which something occurs in space.

What is density?

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?