APHuG Unit 1 Vocab (CED)

Question 1

1.1 - Reference Maps

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Designed for people to refer to for general information about place. Political, physical, road, and plat maps.

Question 2

1.1 - Political Maps

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Show and label human-created boundaries and designations, such as countries, states, cities, and capitals.

Question 3

1.1 - Physical Maps

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Show and label natural features, such as mountains, rivers, and deserts.

Question 4

1.1 - Road Maps

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Show and label highways, streets, and alleys.

Question 5

1.1 - Plat Maps

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Show and label property lines and details of land ownership.

Question 6

1.1 - Thematic Maps

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Show spatial aspects of information or of a phenomenon. Choropleth, dot distribution, graduated symbol, and isoline maps.

Question 7

1.1 - Choropleth Maps

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Use various colors, shades of one color, or patterns to show the location and distribution of spatial data. Often show rates or other quantitative data.

Question 8

1.1 - Dot Distribution Maps

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Used to show the specific location and distribution of something across a map. Each dot represents a specified quantity.

Question 9

1.1 - Graduated Symbol Maps

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Use symbols of different sizes to indicate different amounts of something. Larger sizes indicate more of something, and smaller sizes indicate less.

Question 10

1.1 - Isoline Maps

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Also known as isometric maps. Use lines that connect points of equal value to depict variations in the data across space. Where lines are close together, the map depicts rapid change, and where lines are farther apart, the phenomenon is relatively the same. Topographic maps.

Question 11

1.1 - Topographic Maps

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Points of equal elevation are connected on these maps, creating contours that depict surface features.

Question 12

1.1 - Cartogram

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The sizes of countries (or states, countries, or other areal units) are shown according to some specific statistic.

Question 13

1.1 - Absolute Distance

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Usually measured in terms of feet, miles, meters, or kilometers.

Question 14

1.1 - Relative Distance

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Indicates the degree of nearness based on time or money and is often dependent on the mode of travel.

Question 15

1.1 - Clustering

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Arranged in a group or concentrated area.

Question 16

1.1 - Dispersal

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Spread out over a large area.

Question 17

1.1 - Elevation

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Distance of features above sea level, usually measured in feet or meters.

Question 18

1.1 - Mercator Projection

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Purpose: Navigation
Strengths: Directions are shown accurately. Lines of latitude and longitude meet at right angles.
Weaknesses: Distance between lines of longitude appears constant. Land masses near the poles appear large.

Question 19

1.1 - Peters Projection

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Purpose: Spatial distribution related to area.
Strengths: Sizes of land masses are accurate.
Weaknesses: Shapes are inaccurate, especially near the poles.

Question 20

1.1 - Conic Projection

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Purpose: General use in midlatitude countries.
Strengths: Lines of longitude converge. Lines of latitude are curved. Size and shape are both close to reality.
Weaknesses: Direction is not constant. On a world map, longitude lines converge at only one pole

Question 21

1.1 - Robinson Projection

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Purpose: General use
Strengths: No major distortion. Oval shape appears more like a globe than does a rectangle.
Weaknesses: Area, shape, size, and direction are still slightly distorted.

Question 22

1.2 - Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

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Computer system that can store, analyze, and display information from multiple digital maps or geospatial data sets.

Question 23

1.2 - Global Positioning Systems (GPS)

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GPS receivers on the Earth’s surface use the locations of multiple satellites to determine and record a receiver’s exact location.

Question 24

1.2 - Remote sensing

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The use of cameras or other sensors mounted on aircraft or satellites to collect digital images or video of the Earth’s surface.

Question 25

1.2 - Field observations

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Used to refer to the act of physically visiting a location, place, or region and recording, firsthand, information there.

Question 26

1.2 - Landscape analysis

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The task of defining and describing landscapes.

Question 27

1.3 - Census data

Question 28

1.3 - Satellite Imagery

Question 29

1.4 - Absolute Location

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The precise spot where something is according to a system.

Question 30

1.4 - Relative Location

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A description of where something is in relation to other things.

Question 31

1.4 - Space

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The area between two or more phenomena or things.

Question 32

1.4 - Place

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Refers to the specific human and physical characteristics of a location.

Question 33

1.4 - Flow

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The pattern and movement of ideas, people, products, and other phenomena.

Question 34

1.4 - Distance Decay

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The inverse relationship between distance and connection, when things are farther apart, they tend to be less connected.

Question 35

1.4 - Time-space compression

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The shrinking “time-distance,” or relative distance, between location because of improved methods of transportation and communication.

Question 36

1.4 - Pattern

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Refer to the general arrangement of things being studied, and geographers must be able to describe patterns accurately and with precision.

Question 37

1.5 - Sustainability

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An overarching theme of human geography and relates to trying to use resources now in ways that allow their use in the future while minimizing negative impacts on the environment.

Question 38

1.5 - Natural Resources

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Includes items that occur in the natural environment that people can use.

Question 39

1.5 - Land use

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The study of how land is utilized, modified, and organized by people.

Question 40

1.5 - Environmental Determinism

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The belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development while ignoring the influence of culture.

Question 41

1.5 - Possibilism

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Acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays.

Question 42

1.6 - Global (scale of analysis)

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The entire world

Question 43

1.6 - Regional (scale of analysis)

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Multiple countries of the world

Question 44

1.6 - National (scale of analysis)

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One country; A portion of a country or a region(s) within a country

Question 45

1.6 - Local (scale of analysis)

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A province, state, city, country, or neighborhood

Question 46

1.7 - Formal Region

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Sometimes called uniform regions, or homogeneous regions, and are united by one or more traits: political, physical, cultural, economic.

Question 47

1.7 - Functional Region

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Also known as nodal regions. Are organized around a focal point and are defined by an activity, usually political, social, or economic, that occurs across the region. United by networks of communication, transportation, and other interactions.

Question 48

1.7 - Perceptual/Vernacular Region

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Defined by the informal sense of place that people ascribe to them. The boundaries vary widely because people have a different sense of what defines and unites these regions.