Geographic Thematic Fanatic
It's not all relative-- you can be absolutely sure, too! This theme of geography is all about knowing where something is.
What is location?
What are longitude and latitude?
This issue impacts every map projection because it is impossible to perfectly flatten a sphere into a two-dimensional map.
What is distortion?
This part of a map is just as iconic as its name implies, acting as a guide by explaining a map's symbols and what data they represent.
What is the legend?
This technology uses satellites in space to determine the exact location of something and is a part of our daily lives in 2025.
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)?
This theme of geography focuses on what gets something from one place to another including migration patterns, trade routes, and even the flow of ideas.
What is movement?
Ms. Corley's favorite neighbor Bill used to live across the street from her. She may not know his absolute location, but she does remember his address! She'll use this type of location in the form of an address to send him a card for his birthday.
What is relative location?
These two-dimensional images are always distorted in at least three of the following: shape, area, direction, and distance.
What is a map projection?
While reference maps focus solely on showing where things are, these types of maps show spatial patterns and the relationship between space and data.
What are thematic maps?
This software captures, stores, and displays visual representations of multiple types of data across a given area, allowing users to easily identify themes, patterns, and changes spatially.
What is GIS (Geographic Information Systems)?
This theme is where YOU come in-- your activities impact the world around you, just as the world around you impacts your activities.
What is human-environment interaction?
This term describes a place's absolute location, and it sounds a lot like one of the five senses.
What is site?
This projection is one of the most popular options because it is useful in navigation due to its accurate directions. That being said, it is famous for being very distorted, especially at the poles.
What is the Mercator projection?
Map makers have five of these in mind when creating a map: to present info simply and visually, to gather and present data, to use spatial perspective to identify patterns, and to reveal spatial patterns through specific processes.
What are goals?
In order to identify changes to the planet's surface, this device delivers satellite images of Earth at regular intervals.
What is remote sensing?
This theme is about the personality of an area and what makes it distinguishable from others. There's no (physical and human characteristics of an area) like home!
What is place?
This term can describe the state of affairs, or it can be used to describe a relative location and its surrounding features.
What is situation?
This map projection is excellent at preserving the shape of landforms, but that is about it. To avoid altering their shapes, huge gaps are employed in the oceans resulting in a map with a shape almost impossible to describe.
What is the Goode Homolosine Projection?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Map makers called cartographers create maps through this process, collecting and organizing both quantitative and qualitative data.
What is data aggregation?
These flight-enabled devices allow users to see things from an aerial point of view, collecting and yielding images and other types of data.
What are drones?
Whether it's perceived, functional, or formal, this theme is all about organizing broader areas by shared characteristics.
What is region?
Parents give their child something to be called and we call it a name. When a place on earth is given a name, we call it this instead.
What is a toponym?
This map projection tries to solve the problem of Western European and American bias in maps, but does so at the expense of all four types of distortion. It is visually appealing, but controversial given its approach.
What is the Robinson Projection?
Often used in political discussions but not necessarily a political map by definition, this term describes a type of thematic map which uses data aggregated for a certain geographic unit, representing data values with color.
What is a choropleth map?
Geographers use this procedure to ask questions and find answers to them using the data collected from various types of technology and observation. The five-step protocol is often compared to a similar one in the field of science.