Types of Maps
A map that uses lines to connect points of equal value for a specific variable, such as temperature, elevation, or rainfall.
What is an Isoline Map?
Movement within a country or region
What is Internal Migration?
Involves the extraction of natural resources like agriculture, fishing, forestry, and mining.
What is the Primary Sector?
Individuals fleeing persecution, war, or natural disasters, forced to leave their home country for safety. Usually want to go back to their home.
What are Refugees?
The number of individuals per unit area.
What is Density?
A map that provides an easy way to visualize how a variable varies across a geographic area or show the level of variability within a region.
What is a Choropleth Map?
Movement across national borders
What is External Migration?
Describes the increasing interconnectedness and interdependence of economies through trade, investment, and information flow.
Globalization
Individuals seeking refuge in another country, claiming persecution, who have already arrived in the destination country.
What are Asylum Seekers?
Individuals that are clustered together in certain areas.
What is Clumped Distribution
A map that shows reference information for a particular place, making it useful for navigating and finding landmarks.
What is a Reference Map?
The sequential movement of people to a new location, often influenced by existing ties with relatives or communities already there
What is Chain Migration?
Involves knowledge-based activities like research, development, and information technology.
What is the Quaternary Sector?
Individuals who migrate without the necessary legal documentation.
Individuals that are evenly spaced throughout the habitat.
What is Uniform Distribution?
A map that is designed to show governmental boundaries of countries and states.
What is a Political Map?
A gradual migration process, often involving multiple steps or stages, like moving from a rural area to a village, then a town, and finally a city.
What is Step Migration?
Studies the spatial organization and distribution of economic activities, including sectors, industries, and trade routes.
What is Economic Geography?
Individuals seeking better economic opportunities in a different location.
What are Economic Migrants?
Individuals that are scattered without a clear pattern.
What is Random Distribution?
A map that uses points to show the precise locations of specific observations or occurrences, such as crimes, car accidents, or births.
What is a Dot Map?
Individuals are compelled to move due to factors that are beyond their control.
What is Forced Migration?
Refers to high-level decision-making and service activities, often associated with executives and policymakers.
Quinary Sector
Individuals who migrate to work in another country for a specific period, often with legal status.
What are Temporary Labor Migrants?
Significant population concentrations are found in regions like South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe.
What is Global Distribution?