Vocab G1
The official name of a mapmaker
What is a cartographer?
What is a story?
a connecting point at which several lines come together
What is a node?
A tool that includes high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery, photos, and elevation terrain. An image of your home, school, or any place on earth. Routes when you drive from one place to another.
What is Google Earth?
These can change over time...
What are regions?
a shape resulting from being deformed
What is distortion?
The relationship between map units and the actual distance on the earth
What is scale?
located on or near or bordering on a shore
What is coastal?
Geographers examine human and ____________ patterns across space and time by synthesizing empirical data and maps with other primary and secondary sources.
What is environmental?
The example in class of the region that changed over time...
a biologist who specializes in the study of the brain
What is a nueroscientist?
Maps that use color...
What are choropleth maps?
area indicated by the length from the center of a circle
What is radius?
Data that represents features or objects on the earth's surface
What is geospatial data?
The Middle East is a _____________ region?
What is perceptual?
complex system of paths in which it is easy to get lost
What is a labryinth?
Maps that use size to help show information...
What are cartogram maps?
The right and power to interpret and apply the law
What is jurisdiction?
A computer system for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth's surface:
What is GIS (Geographic Information System)
Regions that have an obvious and natural structure or reason behind them
What are functional regions?
added to or made greater in amount or number or strength
What is augmented?
What is the Mercator map?
Marked by an orderly and consistent relation of parts
What is coherent?
When analyzed appropriately, this tool can give information to help policy-makers, corporate leaders, landowners and communities the ability to make better decisions and more sustainable development outcomes.
What is Satelite Imagery?
Point of view that focuses on a personal interpretation as well as a viewpoint that is based on factual data
What are subjective and objective?