Vocab A
This type of map shows natural features such as mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.
Physical Map
This type of map shows man made features such as boundaries, countries, and cities.
Political Map
This type of region is based on measurable, shared traits that clearly distinguish it from the surrounding area.
Formal Region
This theme of geography is the relationship between people and the world around them.
Human Environment Interaction
These are the 5 themes of geography.
Location, Place, Region, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction
This is the process of turning a 3-D globe into a flat map.
Map Projection
This is an area distinguished by a unique combination of trends and features.
Region
This type of region is based on feelings/beliefs, or based on how people view it, rather than data.
Perceptual Region
This map projection distorts the size (area) of the continents near the poles, making Africa look smaller than it is.
Mercator Projection
This is the science or art of making maps.
Cartography
This type of map distorts the size and shape of countries (EX: stretches or shrinks) to show the amount of something.
Cartogram Map
This is the idea that the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment.
Environmental Possibilism
This type of region is influenced by its node/focal/central point; tied by movement, communication, or function (EX: subway)
Functional Region
These are the two main regions of Africa.
North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
This theme of geography is the SPECIFIC position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
Location
This is the error in accuracy that occurs when creating map projections on a flat surface.
Distortion
This is the idea that human behavior is controlled by the physical environment.
Environmental Determinism
This is the type of region that the South is considered to be.
Perceptual Region
This type of map projection shows accurate sizes of continents, but it distorts their shape.
Peters Projection
These are the different levels of scales of analysis (largest to smallest).
Global, Regional, National, State or Sub-National, Local/City/County
This is a computer system that stores geographic data and produces maps to show that data.
Geographic Information System (GIS)
This is the size of an object on a map vs. the real size of a feature on Earth's surface.
Map Scale
This is the PROCESS of organizing earth's surface into distinct areas that are viewed as different from other areas.
Regionalization
This is the study of human population and its its cultures, activities, and landscapes.
Human Geography
These are the 4 ways that maps can be distorted. (S.A.D.D.)
Shape, Area, Distance, Direction