Introduction to Maps
The most precise way to describe absolute location is to use these.
What are latitude and longitude?
This technology uses satellites to take photos or videos, while this technology uses satellites to collect exact location.
What is remote sensing versus GPS?
Due to the Internet and other modern technologies, this spatial concept is no longer as influential today as it once was.
What is distance decay?
Plants and animals are considered this type of natural resource.
What is a renewable resource?
This is another way to refer to homogenous regions, which must be united by one or more traits.
What are formal or uniform regions?
This projection uses color intensity or shading to show differing amounts of data.
What are chloropleth maps?
This type of computer technology can be used to track and map multiple data points, such as traffic patterns and vehicle accident rates.
What is GIS?
Before I-75 was completed in Tennessee in 1974, it took considerably longer to get from Chattanooga to Atlanta. This is an example of this spatial concept.
What is time-space compression?
A geographer collecting data related to soil erosion on American farmland is likely studying this geographic concept.
What is sustainability?
The American South is an example of this type of region.
What is perceptual or vernacular?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What is the difference between a formal and a functional region?
This is the degree of nearness between places based on social or cultural connectivity, such as time/money/mode of transportation.
What is relative distance?
This includes all information that can be tied to a place, including human activities and traits.
What is geospatial data?
Studying these concepts can help geographers find clues within data about the causes or effects of certain phenomena.
What are patterns in distribution?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What is is called when two more more patterns of distribution appear to be related?
The city of New Orleans existing below sea level is an example of this theory.
What is possibilism?
This is a necessary part of any functional region.
What is the flow of phenomenon across the networks that connect the region?
This projection stretches at the poles and distorts land area the least, making it the best for navigation.
What is Mercator?
Notes, photographs, sketches, and interviews are all examples of geographers doing this.
What is fieldwork or field observations?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What type of data are all the items listed in the prompt?
Derived from a native Creek word for nearby Lookout Mountain meaning “rock rising to a point," the name "Chattanooga" is an example of this spatial concept.
What is a toponym?
This theory is criticized for overstating the role of the environment in the development of a society.
What is environmental determinism?
Using national US data to support that life expectancy in your local community is increasing is an example of the inaccurate use of this.
What is scale of analysis?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What is an accurate example of how geographers use scale of analysis?
The global scale Earth at night map is an example of this type, while a map of North America at night is an example of this type.
What are small-scale versus large-scale maps?
When geographers develop these using geographic data, they are more likely to succeed and be culturally accepted.
American suburbs, with their cookie-cutter houses and unremarkable streets, tend not to inspire this spatial concept.
What is a sense of place?
National parks are an example of this geographic concept at the national scale. Coolidge Park is an example of this geographic concept at the local scale.
What is land use?
This is when geographers organize data into different scales in order to more easily map the data.
What is aggregation?