Map Terms II
A key to the meaning of the symbols and colors on a map
What is a legend?
A map projection that shows all landmasses with their true areas but distorts their shapes
What is the Peters projection?
Occurs when ideas leapfrog from one important person, community, or city to another, bypassing other persons, communities, or rural areas
What is Hierarchical diffusion?
The study of the interactions between societies and their local environments
What is Cultural ecology?
A geographical area inhabited by people who have one or more traits in common
What is a Formal region?
The distance on a map in relation to distance in actual space, for example, 1 inch on a map might indicate a distance of 100 miles
What is Map scale?
A map projection that is useful for navigation because the lines connecting points on the map represent the true compass direction; however, landmasses become increasingly distorted the farther away they are from the equator
What is the Mercator projection?
Occurs when individuals or groups with a particular idea or practice migrate from one location to another, thereby bringing the idea or practice to their new homeland
What is Relocation diffusion?
Natural resources that are available on Earth in finite quantities and will eventually be used up
What are Nonrenewable resources?
A geographic area that has been organized to function politically, socially, culturally, or economically as one unit
What is a Functional region?
The distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length, such as a foot, yard, mile, or kilometer
What is Absolute distance?
A map projection that looks down at Earth from the perspective of one of the poles
What is a Polar projection?
Occurs when ideas or practice spread throughout a population, from area to area, in a snowballing process, so that the total number of knowers or users and the areas of occurrence increase
What is Expansion diffusion?
Compounds in the atmosphere from fossil-fuel combustion, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), that absorb and trap heat energy close to Earth’s surface
What are Greenhouse gases?
Boundaries that are disputed for religious, political, or cultural reasons
What are Contested boundaries?
A measurement of the level of social, cultural, or economic similarity between places despite their absolute distance from each other
What is Relative distance?
A map projection that avoids shape distortion and the restrictions of a rectangular map by creating “interruptions” in the map’s continuity; in each section, map projection regions are shown “equally”, like an orange peel being laid out on a flat surface
What is the Goode homolosine projection?
The wavelike spread of ideas in the manner of a contagious disease or forest fire, moving throughout space without regard to hierarchy
What is Contagious diffusion?
The belief that the physical environment is the dominant force shaping cultures and that humanity is a passive product of its physical surroundings
What is Environmental determinism?
A geographic area that is perceived to exist by its inhabitants, based on the widespread acceptance and use of a unique regional name
What is a Perceptual / vernacular region?
A direction that can be described as position, such as in front of or behind, to the left or to the right
What is Relative direction?
A map projection that attempts to create the most visually appealing representation of Earth by keeping all types of distortion relatively low over most of the map
What is the Robinson projection?
Occurs when a specific trait is rejected, but the underlying idea is accepted
What is Stimulus diffusion?
The belief that any physical environment offers a number of possible ways for a society to develop and that humans can find ways to overcome environmental challenges
What is Possibilism?
A region where cultural markers overlap and blend into a recognizable border culture
What is a Border zone?