Maps, Scales, & Projections
THIS TYPE OF MAP SHOWS NATURAL AND HUMAN-MADE FEATURES LIKE MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, AND ROADS
What is a Reference Map?
THE EXACT LOCATION OF A PLACE USING COORDINATES
What is absolute location?
THIS TERM DESCRIBES HOW THINGS ARE SPREAD OUT OVER SPACE
What is distribution?
THIS SYSTEM USES SATELLITES TO DETERMINE EXACT LOCATIONS
What is GPS?
THIS TERM MEANS USING RESOURCES IN WAYS THAT DON’T DEPLETE THEM FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
What is Sustainability?
A GROUP OF PLACES THAT SHARE A COMMON FEATURE?
What is a region?
THIS TYPE OF MAP USES COLORS OR SHADING TO SHOW DATA PATTERNS, LIKE POPULATION DENSITY
What is a Choropleth Map?
A REGION WITH A COMMON CHARACTERISTIC, LIKE A COUNTRY OR A LANGUAGE AREA
What is a formal region?
THE TERM THAT WOULD DESCRIBE A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE HOUSES ARE SPACED FAR APART
What is Dispersed?
THIS SYSTEM STORES, ANALYZES, AND DISPLAYS GEOGRAPHIC DATA IN LAYERS
What is GIS?
WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF A SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE IN AGRICULTURE?
What is crop rotation/organic farming/reduced pesticide use?
THE TERM THAT DESCRIBES SHRINKING DISTANCES DUE TO IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION
What is time-space compression?
THIS MAP PROJECTION PRESERVES DIRECTION BUT DISTORTS SIZE, ESPECIALLY NEAR THE POLES
THIS TERM DESCRIBES A REGION THAT EXISTS IN PEOPLE’S MINDS, LIKE “THE SOUTH”
What is a perceptual (or vernacular) region?
THIS TERM REFERS TO THE NUMBER OF THINGS IN A CERTAIN AREA
What is density?
DATA THAT COMES FROM INTERVIEWS OR FIELD OBSERVATIONS AND IS OFTEN DESCRIPTIVE
What is qualitative data?
WHAT IS A MODERN EXAMPLE OF PEOPLE ADAPTING TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT?
What is building houses on stilts in flood-prone areas/wearing light clothing in hot climate.
The term for a person who creates maps?
What is a cartographer?
THIS MAP PROJECTION SHOWS A MORE ACCURATE SIZE OF CONTINENTS BUT DISTORTS THEIR SHAPE
What is the Peters Projection?
THIS TERM DESCRIBES THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A PLACE, SUCH AS CLIMATE, ELEVATION, OR WATER SOURCES
What is a site?
THE TERM FOR THE GEOMETRIC ARRANGEMENT OF OBJECTS IN SPACE
What is pattern?
THE PROCESS OF COLLECTING DATA FROM SATELLITES OR AIRCRAFT
What is remote sensing?
THIS TERM DESCRIBES THE IDEA THAT THE ENVIRONMENT LIMITS HUMAN ACTIONS, BUT PEOPLE CAN ADJUST
What is Possibilism?
THE NAME FOR A PLACE'S POSITION RELATIVE TO OTHER IMPORTANT LOCATIONS, SUCH AS TRADE ROUTES OR NATURAL RESOURCES
What is situation?
IF A MAP SHOWS A SMALL AREA IN GREAT DETAIL, IS IT A LARGE-SCALE OR SMALL-SCALE MAP?
What is a large-scale map?
THIS GEOGRAPHIC CONCEPT REFERS TO HOW PEOPLE DEFINE AND EXPERIENCE THE CHARACTER OF A LOCATION
What is sense of place?
THE PATTERN THAT EXISTS WHEN OBJECTS ARE EVENLY SPACED APART IN AN ORDERLY WAY
What is a linear or uniform pattern?
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT’S EFFORT TO COUNT THE POPULATION EVERY 10 YEARS
What is the Census?
THIS THEORY CLAIMS THAT THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT SHAPES HUMAN CULTURE AND BEHAVIOR
What is Environmental Determinism?
THIS TERM REFERS TO THE REDUCTION IN IMPORTANCE OF A PHENOMENON AS YOU MOVE FARTHER FROM ITS POINT OF ORIGIN
What is distance decay?