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Reference maps

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Reference maps are informational, showing boundaries, and symbols. World maps, map of cities,., often display physical and man made features

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Thematic maps

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Tell a story. Quantifiable data (data that can be counted or measured in numerical values) . Have data such as how many people live where

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Color dot map

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maps that show distribution with dots

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graduated symbol map (proptional symbol map)

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similar to dot but proportion in size

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Isoline map

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Area of conentration with darker color

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Absolute distance

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A quantitative measurement, “my house is 50 feet from school” more numbers

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Relative Distance

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A qualitative measurement. “my house is close to the beach” more interepreative

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Map projection

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taking a spherical earth and displaying it flat. Because of this all flat images will all be distorted

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Mercator projection

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Latitude and longitude shown at right angles distorts sizes at high latitude. accurate for sea travel

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Cencus

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The united state gathering data every 10 years. This gives the governemnt power data

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Field obeservation

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Drawing maps, writing stuff down taking the road,
Basically going out into fields and seeing how everything is doing
what type of things they saw there. interveiwing local people

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Gis (Geographic information system)

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A compute system that stores collects anaylizes and displays geographic data

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Remote sensing

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information from satellite taking pics
- urban
- drought
The process of taking pictures of the earths surface from satellites

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Absolute location

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The unique characteristics of a place that never changes.
ex: longitude and latitude. Or address of a home

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Relative location

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The location of a place in relation with others
for example the Us is south of canada

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place

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a unique location

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Flows

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How places, information, goods flow

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distance decay

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the farther away something is, the less communication there will be between those places. An example wifi to a router

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Time space compression

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The reduction of time bc of the technology available

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Sustanability

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Actions that provide immediate benefits while also preserving resources for the future

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Natural resources (can be renewable and non renewable

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resources that are provided by the earth

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Land use

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Changing the earths surface for specific purpose

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Cultural ecology

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cultural adaptation to an enviroment

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Environmental determinism

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Natural factors alone determine the cultural attributes of human society

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possibilism
The natural environment has an impact on us however humans can harness technologies to overcome those impacts
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Scale of Analysis
the level at which we determine the data
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GPS Global positioning systems
Satellite networks that can be used to produce location data, survey landscapes, and provide data for navigation systems,
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Chloropleth Map
A map that shows the average vaue of a property through shading, coloring, or placing sumbols
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Robinson projection
An attempt to minimize errors in distance, relative size, compass direction but fails. Distorts polar areas maintains good relative shape
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Geographic scale
hierarchy of spaces from small to large reflecting real world organization
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Cartogram
Distorting the geomety of regions inorder to convey the information of an alternate variable
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Cartographic scale
the ratio of a distance on earth compare to the map
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Data scale
Relative size of the map or lens we use to observe geographical phoenomena
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Formal Region
An area defined by one predominant or universal characteristic throughout its entire area
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perceptual region
what we believe about an area
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Functional node regions
An area organized around a central focal point or node
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WHat happens in kenya
Kenya is malnourished and most of the lad is owned by coffee and tea.
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Human Geography
How people make places organize society interactions making sense of world
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Globilization
A set of processes that increase interactions. A set of outcomes that are felt from these global processes- outcomes that are unevenly distributed and differently manifested.
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Human and physical phenomena
Human: Language, religion, identity physical: landforms, climate, enviromental
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Marvin Mikesell gave a short hand definition of geography as what
Why and Where and so what why and how do certain things come together in certain places to produce particular outcomes
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What did Dr John snow do
Dr John snow mapped the diasease of cholera and found out that most deaths were clustered around water pump
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pandemic vs epidemic
Pandemic is worldwide and epidemic is regional
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five themes
location (people and things on earth surface affects what happens and why, human-environment interaction (why did the rmy corp of engineers alter floridas physical environment, regions (Conentrations in particular areas of phenomena, place( every where on earth is touched by men), and movement (movement of people good and ideas
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sense if place and perception of place
Sense of place: infusing a place with emotion, remembering important events perception: a place we never been to but hasve heard in movies, books and stuff
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Cultural landsacpe
Visible imprint of human activity on the landscape. Have layers of impressions from compounded years of human activity.
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Cultural landscapes of sequent occupance
imprints made by a sequence of occupants
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cartography
art of making maps
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mental maps
the maps in our head
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generalized map
help us see general trends. maybe just general?
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culture
music, literature and arts of soceity but to all the other features of its way of life
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Cultural trait
a single attribute of a culture
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cultural hearth
an area where cultural traits develop
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Expansion diffusion
an idea that develops in the hearth and spreads outwards while remaining in the hearth
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Hierarchical diffusion
when a idea is spread by being passed amoungst the most influenetial people first
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contagious diffsuion
person to person contact virus's sickness
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stimulus diffsuion
when the idea goes out of the hearth but the idea is changed Chinese food
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Relocation diffsuion
movement of individuals who have adopted the idea and carry it to new places
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political ecology
an area of inquiry fundamentally concerned with the environmental consequences of dominant political economic arrangement understanding

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