Components of Geography
Human geography
What are the activities of people?
Physical geography
What is the natural environment
The Theory that the environment exerts a controlling influence over people
What is environmental determinism?
The three fundamentals of mapping
What are scale, centering and orientation, and projection?
The three components of geography
What are space, regions, and environment?
The analysis of flows, interdependence, and underlying structures of space
What is spatial interaction?
The theory that people can control their environment
What is human determinism?
A map projection method that preserves many special relationships, particularly in the middle to low latitudes
What is a Robinson projection?
A type of location defined by a name attached to a place
What is nominal location?
The delineation of territories
What is spatial organization?
The theory that though there are some limits of human activities, people have very options to adapt to the physical environment
What is environmental possibilism?
The aspects of a Map conserved by a Mercator Projection
What are shape and orientation, at the expense of size
Location defined by Direction relative to other locations
What is Relative location?
An area in which selected physical or human characteristics are present throughout the region
What is a formal/uniform region?
Solutions to population issues in developing countries (give me two)
What are Education, Employment opportunities for women, and access to family planning?
A map in which areas are shaded in proportion to a statistical variable
What is a choropleth map?
Absolute location
What is the mathematically precise location, often denoted by latitude and longitude?
An area in which an activity has a network, a focal point, or a node
What is a functional region?
Explaining the changes of a country's population over time in accordance with economic development
What is Demographic Transition Theory?
Ways by which Maps can be used to lie (two)
What are the manipulation of projection and the manipulation of color?