1.1: Intro to Maps
A map uses different shades of the same color to show the percentage of a population living in urban areas. What type of thematic map is being used?
A geographer physically visits a neighborhood, records observations, takes photographs, and analyzes the landscape. What method of geographic data collection is being used?
What is fieldwork (or primary) data collection
A town has unique buildings, landmarks, and cultural characteristics that make residents feel that it is different from other places. What concept describes the factors contributing to this uniqueness?
What is Sense of Place
What is Regional Scale of Analysis
A map shows countries according to the size of a particular variable rather than their actual geographic area. What type of map is this?
What is a Cartogram
What is absolute distance
A city combines crime locations, roads, population information, and other digital data layers to determine where additional police resources may be needed. What geospatial technology makes this type of analysis possible?
GIS
A geographer studies how climate, water sources, soil, vegetation, and topography affect a particular location. Is the geographer studying the site's physical landscape or its toponym?
What is physical landscape
A map shows a very large geographic area but includes relatively little detail. Is this a small-scale map or a large-scale map?
What is a Small-Scale Map
A geographer observes that restaurants are concentrated along one particular street rather than being spread evenly throughout a city. What spatial patterns is being described?
What is Clustered
A navigation company chooses a map projection because it preserves direction and shape, making it useful for navigation, even though areas near the poles appear much larger than they actually are. Which projection is being described?
What is the Mercator Projection
A driver uses satellites to determine the vehicle's precise location and receive directions to a destination. What technology is being used?
What is a GPS
A social media trend begins among celebrities and other influential people before spreading to the general population. Which type of diffusion does this best represent?
What is Hierarchical Diffusion
A region is united by a specific political characteristic, such as being composed of the states and capitals of Europe. What type of region is this?
A location is identified using its latitude and longitude. Is this absolute location or relative location?
What is Absolute Location
A map shows individual dots, with each dot representing 10,000 people. A student wants to determine where those people are concentrated across the United States. What type of map is this?
What is a Dot-Density map
Researchers want to study environmental changes in a remote area that they cannot easily visit. They use sensors mounted on satellites to collect digital images of Earth's surface. What method are they using?
What is Remote Sensing
A society faces a hot, dry environment but develops technologies and infrastructure that allow people to live comfortably and obtain needed water. Which theory of human-environment interaction is illustrated?
What is environmental possibilism
What is a Functional Region
A characteristic begins in one location, spreads outwards rapidly through a population, and reaches many people in a relatively short period of time. What type of diffusion is this?
What is Contagious Diffusion
A geographer needs a world map that provides a compromise between different types of distortion. The projection has no major distortion, but all aspects of the Earth's surface are slightly distorted. Which projection should the geographer use?
What is a Robinson Projection
The __________ collects information about the population that can then be used to help determine the distribution of public funding for schools, law enforcement, fire departments, highways, and infrastructure. What does this example demonstrate about geographic data?
What is the U.S. Census
A characteristic spreads because people physically move from one place to another, bringing that characteristic with them. What type of diffusion is occuring?
What is Relocation Diffuison
Two people disagree about whether an area should be considered part of "the South" because they have different ideas about where the region begins and ends. What type of region is being described, and why might its boundaries vary?
What is a Perceptual/Vernacular Region
A geographer examines a problem at the neighborhood level and then zooms out to examine the same problem at the national level. Why might the geographer get different results or interpretations at these two scales?
What is Scales of Analysis