Maps
This type of map is designed primarily to show the location of physical and human features, such as roads, rivers, cities, and political boundaries.
What is a reference map?
Your phone determines your location by receiving signals from satellites orbiting Earth. What technology is primarily responsible?
What is GPS?
Denver is located "east of the Rocky Mountains". This is an example of what type of location?
A city's subway system connects surrounding neighborhoods to a central downtown area. The area organized around this transportation network is an example of what type of region?
What is a functional region?
A map uses different shades of color to show the percentage of a state's population living in urban areas. What type of thematic map is most appropriate?
What is a choropleth map?
A geographer interviews residents about what makes their neighborhood feel safe, welcoming, or uncomfortable. Is this primarily qualitative or quantitative data?
People are more likely to visit a grocery store 1 mile from their home than one 30 miles away. Which geographic concept explains this pattern?
What is distance decay?
The physical characteristics of a location, such as climate, terrain, and natural resources.
What is site?
A geographer wants to study the distribution of restaurants within a single city neighborhood. Would a large-scale or small-scale map be more useful?
A large scale map (shows a smaller area with greater detail)
Which type of data collection involves geographers visiting real-world locations, conducting interviews, taking photos, etc?
What is field work?
In the 1800s, traveling between New York and London could take weeks. Today, a passenger can make the trip in hours, while a video call connects people almost instantly. What geographic concept describes this shrinking importance of travel time?
What is time-space compression (or convergence)?
People living in the Netherlands have constructed dikes and drainage systems to create land for settlement despite the country's low-lying physical environment. Which geographic concept does this best demonstrate?
What is possibilism?
This type of map projection is commonly used in schools and is known for distorting the land closest to the poles.
The Mercator Projection
A researcher wants to monitor deforestation in the Amazon without physically visiting every part of the rainforest. Which geospatial technology would be most useful?
What is remote sensing?
"Pike's Peak", "Colorado", "France", and "Pensacola Beach" are all examples of THESE.
What are toponyms?
The location of a place relative to other places, including its connections to transportation routes and nearby resources.
What is situation?
These are the four things that can be distorted on a flat map projection.
What are Size, Area (Shape), Distance, and Direction?
This technology allows geographers to layer spatial data to see patterns and analyze them.
A geographer notices that neighborhoods with higher incomes also tend to have higher property values and more expensive restaurants. What concept describes how two or more phenomena are similarly distributed across space?
What is spatial association?
The belief that the physical environment directly determines human behavior and cultural development.
What is environmental determinism?