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| Focused on the English culture |
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"As I move" = "Az-I-Muth"
Think moving direction.
Projection means map.
So a map which maintains direction but distorts other properties. |
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| Map that uses proportionality to show a particular value |
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"Show yo p" = "Cho-ro-p"
Show your pattern.
Map that shows a pattern of a variable. |
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in form = stay in Shape
Map that maintains shape but distorts other properties |
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| Study of human-environment interaction |
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| Size of geographic units being represented on a map |
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| Long distant relationships never work, they decay. The farther apart you are the less interaction you will have. :( |
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| Thematic map that uses dots to represent the frequency of a variable in a given area |
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Map that maintains area but distorts other properties
Its in the name... |
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Map that maintains distance but distorts other properties
again in the name... |
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| Region composed if areas that have a common cultural or physical feature, aka uniform regions. |
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| Four Main Properties of a Map |
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| Shape - Size - Distance - Direction. |
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| Degree to which distance interferes with some interaction. Friction is like rubbing stuff. Think of a car dragging something, the more distance it goes the more interference happens. |
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| Group of places linked together by some function's influence on them after diffusing from a central node; aka nodal region |
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| Geographic Information System |
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| Computer program that stores geographic data and produces maps to show the data |
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| what exist on the earth or what might exist in the future; helps a geographer search for answers to why patterns exist |
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| Global Positioning System |
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| System of satellites used to determine an exact location on the global grid |
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| Circles formed on the surface of the earth by a plane that passes through the center of the earth. The equator and every line of longitude paired with its twin on the opposite side of the earth make great circles. Any arc of a great circle shows the shortest distance between two points on the earth's surface. |
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| Baseline for time zones around the world, centered on the prime meridian; aka universal time |
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| Human-Environment Interaction |
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| One theme of geography through which geographers analyze humans' impact on their environment and their environment's impact on them |
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| Map displaying lines that connect points of equal value; ex: a map showing elevation level |
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| Measured in degrees of N & S from the equator. Lines of latitude never intersect, also called parallels. |
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| Measured in degrees of E & W from the prime meridian (Which runs through England's Greenwich Observatory) |
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| 2D model of the earth or a proportion of its surface |
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| Relationship between distance on the map and the actual measurement in the real world |
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| Map showing the shapes of the continents and the landforms accurately but drastically distorting the size of the continents |
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| Theme in geography involving the movement occurring in a space: movement of info, people, goods, and other phenomena |
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| Place from which a diffusing phenomenon spreads to other places (Originating point) |
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| Region whose boundaries are determined by people's beliefs, not a scientifically measurable process; aka Vernacular regions |
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| Map created by a geographer to show the relative size of the earth's continents accurately but distorts shapes so it is not conformal |
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| Branch of geography concerned with spatial analysis of the structures, processes, and locations of the earth's natural phenomena, like soil, climate, plants and topography |
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| Theme in geography that involves the unique combination of physical and cultural attributes that give each location on the earth its individual "stamp" |
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| Data directly collected by the geographer making the map or conducting the study |
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| Proportional-Symbol Thematic Map |
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| Map that uses some symbol to display the frequency of a variable; the larger the symbol the higher the frequency |
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| Map showing features like boundaries, roads, highways, mountains, and cites |
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| Theme in geography involving a spatial unit that has many places sharing similar characteristics |
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| Directions commonly given by people, such as right, left, up, and down, among many others |
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| Location f a place or object described in relation to places or objects around it |
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| Technique of obtaining information about objects through the study of data collected by special instruments that are not in physical contact with the objects being analyzed |
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| Map showing the world with slight distortions to all four properties, rather than having one property correct and the other three distorted |
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| Data used by a geographer but collected by another source that previously conducted a study and made the data available for future use |
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Eliminating nonsense and focusing on what the map should be.
Cut the small talk yo. |
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| Person's perception of the human and physical attributes of location that give it a unique identity in that person's mind |
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| Person's perception of the human and physical attributes of location that give it a unique identity in that person's mind |
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| Internal physical and cultural characteristics of a place, such as its terrain and dominant religions, among others |
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| Location of a place relative to the physical and cultural characteristics around it. The more interconnected a place is to other powerful places, the better its situation. |
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| Increasing sense of accessibility and connectivity that seems to be bringing humans in distance places closer together |
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| Process in which goods, ideas, information, and people move among places |
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| Outlook through which geographers identify, explain, and predict human and physical patterns in space and the interconnectedness of different spaces |
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| Map that zeros in on one feature such as climate, population, or voting patterns |
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