Chapter 1 quiz omg im so scared im literally gonna fail and my gpa will drop bad Flashcards
Reference maps
Reference maps are informational, showing boundaries, and symbols. World maps, map of cities,., often display physical and man made features
Thematic maps
Tell a story. Quantifiable data (data that can be counted or measured in numerical values) . Have data such as how many people live where
Color dot map
maps that show distribution with dots
graduated symbol map (proptional symbol map)
similar to dot but proportion in size
Isoline map
Area of conentration with darker color
Absolute distance
A quantitative measurement, “my house is 50 feet from school” more numbers
Relative Distance
A qualitative measurement. “my house is close to the beach” more interepreative
Map projection
taking a spherical earth and displaying it flat. Because of this all flat images will all be distorted
Mercator projection
Latitude and longitude shown at right angles distorts sizes at high latitude. accurate for sea travel
Cencus
The united state gathering data every 10 years. This gives the governemnt power data
Field obeservation
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
Gis (Geographic information system)
A compute system that stores collects anaylizes and displays geographic data
Remote sensing
information from satellite taking pics
- urban
- drought
The process of taking pictures of the earths surface from satellites
Absolute location
The unique characteristics of a place that never changes.
ex: longitude and latitude. Or address of a home
Relative location
The location of a place in relation with others
for example the Us is south of canada
place
a unique location
Flows
How places, information, goods flow
distance decay
the farther away something is, the less communication there will be between those places. An example wifi to a router
Time space compression
The reduction of time bc of the technology available
Sustanability
Actions that provide immediate benefits while also preserving resources for the future
Natural resources (can be renewable and non renewable
resources that are provided by the earth
Land use
Changing the earths surface for specific purpose
Cultural ecology
cultural adaptation to an enviroment