Map It Out
This type of map shows the locations of places and geographic features, like political boundaries or physical landscapes.
What is a Reference Map?
This system uses satellites to provide the absolute location of places on Earth.
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?
The exact latitude and longitude of Denver, Colorado is an example of this type of location.
What is absolute location?
This type of region is defined by a shared trait, such as a common language or climate, and has a clearly defined boundary.
What is a formal region?
Coal, oil, water, and forests are all examples of these, which humans use to meet their needs.
What are natural resources?
This type of map focuses on specific themes or data, such as population density or climate zones.
What is a thematic map?
This computer-based system stores, analyzes, and displays geographic data in layers.
What is GIS (Geographic Information System)?
Saying Denver is "about 100 miles south of Cheyenne" describes this type of location.
What is relative location?
The area served by a pizza delivery driver is an example of this type of region.
What is a functional region?
This concept focuses on using resources in a way that allows them to be available for future generations.
What is sustainability?
On a map, the exact coordinates 40° N, 105° W describe THIS type of location.
What is ABSOLUTE location?
This technology uses satellites to collect data about Earth’s surface without direct contact.
What is remote sensing?
This concept explains how interactions between places decrease as distance between them increases.
What is distance decay?
“The South” or “the Middle East,” based on people’s shared perceptions, are examples of this type of region.
What is a perceptual (or, vernacular) region?
The outdated theory that the environment completely determines human behavior and culture is known as this.
What is Environmental Determinism?
Because maps are flat representations of a round Earth, they always include THIS unavoidable issue that alters shape, area, distance, or direction.
What is distortion?
Geographers collect information through these firsthand methods, including field observations, interviews, and landscape analysis.
What is field data collection?
The idea that technology, such as airplanes and the internet, has made places feel “closer” together even though the distance hasn’t changed, is called this.
What is space time compression/convergence?
Global, regional, national, and local are examples of THIS geographic concept, which shows how data can be analyzed at different levels.
What are scales of analysis?
Farming in deserts with irrigation systems or building floating cities to deal with sea level rise are examples of this broader geographic concept.
What is human-environment interaction?
This type of map scale shows a LARGE amount of detail of a SMALL area. (large scale or small scale?)
What is a LARGE scale map?
Businesses and governments often rely on this type of large-scale data, like population counts and demographics, to make decisions.
What is census data?
The movement of people, goods, or ideas from one place to another is known as this.
What are flows?
The different scales / scales of analysis we covered are: Global, Regional, National, ___________, Local
This newer theory argues that while the environment sets limits, people can adapt and make choices through culture and technology.
What is possibilism?