Starts with a "D"
What term describes the pattern of how a disease moves through a population?
What is contagious diffusion?
What type of region is Latin America?
What is formal?
Which map type shows human-created boundaries?
What is poltical?
What do maps distort, HINT: why are they SADD?
shape, area, distance, and direction
It is a map about a specific topic and it is useful for showing a variety of geographic information.
What is a thematic map?
What term describes where something occurs within a space?
What is distribution?
What type of region is a newspaper delivery area?
What is functional/nodal?
Which map type shows natural geographic features like rivers?
What is a physical map?
Which map projection distorts the shape of land masses, especially near the poles, but maintains size?
What is Peters Projection
Does this describe environmental determinism or possibilism?: Asserts that humans are at the mercy of natural forces.
What is Env. Determinism?
What term describes the introduction of languages to a new place from a group of people immigrating to a new area?
What is relocation diffusion?
What type of region is the temperate climate zone?
What is formal?
Which map type uses shading to illustrate data?
What is Choropleth?
This projection has less distortion in size and shape and is preferred by the National Geographic Society.
What is the Robinson projection?
What term describes how often or how much something occurs within a space?
What is density?
What type of region is the Midwest?
What is perceptual/vernacular?
Which map type uses lines that connect at points of equal value to depict variations?
What is Isoline?
The preferred map for navigation?
What is the Mercator projection
What theory explains why LA and San Francisco interact more than LA and Miami?
What is distance decay?
What type of region is the London Underground subway system?
What is Functional/nodal?
Which map type shows details of land ownership?
What is a plat map?
Which map projection does not feature latitude lines that converge at both poles?
Does this describe environmental determinism or possibilism?: Is criticized for discouraging the study of nature.
What is env. possibilism?