Ways to Describe Spatial Patterns
Growing or situated in a group close together
What is Clustered?
thematic maps that are used to show statistical data as color mapping and symbols
What is Choropleth Map?
Growing interdependence when it comes to the world's economies, cultures, technologies, and the flow of people, investments, and information across the world
What is Globalization?
the scale used to analyze a small community, city or neighborhood
What is local scale?
the maximum population that a given area can sustain
What is Carrying Capacity?
Distributed or spread over a wide area
What is Disperse?
shows things from space: landforms, coastlines, waterways and other things.
What is Reference Map?
Industrialization isn't as it once was, not at its peak, within a region or country
What is deindustrialization?
A nation or a country has a scale of analysis
What is National Scale?
the period it takes for a population to double in size, assuming a constant growth rate
What is Population Doubling Time?
Groups of buildings that form a straight line
What is linear?
Ratio between the distance between a map and the actual earth
What is Cartographic Map?
The government decides on the actions and or steps it takes in order to address issues within the community they have power over
What is Government Policy?
The world as a whole is analyzed
What is Global Scale?
a technique that uses visual representations, such as maps and charts, to explore and analyze geospatial data
What is Geovisualization?
Pattern that is seen around the edge of an area
What is Peripheral?
Lines show elevation and change depending on the landscape
What is Topographic Map?
There are improvements in communication and technologies which allows for greater efficiency and productivity
What is Technological Advancements?
size of an area being looked at relatively to the size of other areas.
What is Geographic Scale (relative scale)?
the acquisition of information about the Earth's surface without physically being present
What is Remote Sensing?
Objects or phenomena are all close to each other
What is Clumped?
What is Isoline Map?
Goods and services aren't traded like they once were, instead new ways of trade are formed and adapted by countries
What is Shifting Global Trade patterns?
A region or portion within a country is analyzed
What is National Regional Scale?
the practice of hiring a third-party company to perform tasks or services that would otherwise be done in-house
What is Outsourcing?