Types of Scale
A scale in the sense of what we're familiar with and the general extent of things.
What is Geographic scale?
The geographical position of things and people on Earth.
What is locational geography?
Map that transforms a spherical surface like the earth onto a cylindrical surface.
What is the mercator projection?
Sector involving the collecting of raw materials.
What is the primary sector?
monetary worth of what is produced within a country plus income received from investments outside the country minus income payments to other countries.
What is GNI?
Scale of distribution of population in an entire country.
What is national scale?
Relationship between humans and the physical world.
What is human environment interactions?
map that has a cylindrical equal area projection with latitudes 45 degrees north and south.
What is the peter's projection?
Sector that encompasses businesses that provide services rather than goods.
what is the tertiary sector?
a measure of the total value of the officially recorded goods and services produced by the citizens and corporations of a country in a given year, and includes things produced both inside and outside the country’s territory.
What is GNP?
Scale of a specific place with unique features such as climate, topography, and vegetation.
What is local scale?
Features of Earth's surface concentrated in particular places.
What is region?
What is conic projection?
The sector that contains people in charge of high priority decision making within an economy.
What is the quinary sector?
goods and services produced within a country during a given year.
What is GDP?
Scale that spans the entire Earth.
What is global scale?
Somewhere with a sense of meaning and emotion tied behind it.
What is place?
An equal area pseudocylindrical projection for world maps.
What is the goode homolosine projection?
Sector that manufactures raw materials into finished goods.
What is the secondary sector?
Index that measures a country's overall achievements in health, education, and standard of living.
What is HDI?
Scale that is in-between the size of a community and a whole nation.
What is national regional scale?
The mobility of people goods and ideas across the surface of the planet.
What is movement?
A pseudocylindrical projection representing the entire world on a flat surface.
What is the robinson projection?
Sector that encompasses industries and activities focused on the generation, processing, and distribution of information.
What is the quarternary sector?
Theory that proposes all nations progress through five stages on their journey to development.
What is rostow's modernization theory?