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1
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Reference Maps

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Provide General Info and location

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What types of reference maps are there?

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Locator, Political, physical, plat, road

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Locator Map

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A map to help you find something. LOCATE

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Political Maps

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Shows human created boundaries, cities, and capitals (think of stack the states)

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Physical Maps

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Natural Features

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Plat Maps

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Show and label property lines and details of ownership

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Road Maps

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Highways and streets

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Define Thematic Maps

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Display spatial aspects of a phenomenon, usually specific data. (EX: How may people in Texas voted for a republican representative?)

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What types of Thematic Maps are there?

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Chloropleth, Dot distribution, graduated symbol, isoline

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Chloropleth maps

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uses various colors or patterns to show data (ex: darker the color, greater the population)

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Dot distribution

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Uses dots to show frequency of something

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Graduated Symbol

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Symbol of different sizes show different amounts (as the symbol gets bigger, the amount increases)

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isoline

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Uses lines to show variations of data. Think of weather and elevation maps

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Define Cartograms

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Think of those funny looking maps, Non contagious, contiguous, and dorling

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Non contiguous

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The features are not connected (usually countries or states). They get bigger or smaller depending on their quantified value.

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Contiguous

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The features are connected and size distorts to show a specific variable

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Dorling

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Uses geometric shapes to show the amount of something

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What do map projections do to shape, area, distance, and direction?

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They distort spatial relationships?

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Map projections are SADD because they distort

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Size, Area, Distance, And Direction

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Mercator map

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Purpose is navigation because it keeps consisten angles, especially up close.

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Peters Equal Area

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  • Sizes and Area are accurate, but vertically stretched up and down (stretchy near equator)
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Robinson Map

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all areas are kind of distorted, good balance

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Prime Meridian

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0 degrees longitude

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Equator

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0 degrees latitude

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Tropic of Cancer

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23 degrees 26 minutes north

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Tropic of Capricorn

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23 degrees 26 minutes south

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Lines of longitude are similar to

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Y axis

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Lines of latitude can be compared to the

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X axis

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Absolute location

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Can be address, latitude and longitude, EXACT, PRECISE

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Relative Location

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Where something is in comparison to places you know (Oh that restaurant is south of my house)

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Absolute Distance

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Precise, Miles, KM, feet.

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Relative distance

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Think about SPATIAL INTERACTION, and how amazon has decreased the relative distance of things through connections

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Time Space Compression

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Shrinking of time distance between locations because of transportation and communication

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How do you measure coordinates?

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Degrees, then minutes, then seconds

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The study of population is

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Demography

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How does the amount of people somewhere impact society?

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It will determine policies, procedures and funding

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GPS

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Satellites measure absolute location with GPS receivers, USED FOR NAVIGATION

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Aerial Photography

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What it sounds like, pictures taken from the sky

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GIS

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Computers that store data on different features, layers could be of crime, pollution, or really can measure anything

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Remote Sensing

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Cameras or sensors on satellites that collect images of earths surface to monitor weather, the environment, and other large scale things

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What questions do you ask as a geographer?

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What? Where? Why there? Why care? Patterns?

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Sense of Place is

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Factors that contribute to the uniqueness

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Cultural landscape

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Physical artifacts that make up landscape

44
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Placelessnesss

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No distinct attributes, like a strip mall

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Toponym

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Locations name

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Site

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Environmental features (think, what is in my sight?)

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Situation

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Where something is situated in relation to other places

48
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What do geographers emphasize?

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Patterns, processes to make connections

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Spatial Patterns

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Refers to distribution

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Distribution includes what?

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Density, concentration, and pattern

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Density

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Amount of something in space, dense or sparse

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Concentration can be

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Clustered or dispersed (how it is spread out)

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Clustering

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When objects in an area are close together

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Dispersed

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When objects in an area are far apart

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Pattern

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How objects are arranged in space

56
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Linear distribution

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Phenomena are arranged in a straight line

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Circular

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Phenomena are usually spaced from a central point, forming a circle

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Geometric

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Phenomena are in a regular arrangement

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random

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Phenomena have no order

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What is spatial interaction?

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Connections, contacts, movement and flow of things between places

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Distance decay

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The interaction between two places declines as the distance increases due to cultural and physical barriers

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First Law of Geography

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Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.

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What is scale

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How zoomed in or out a map or image is, VISIBILITY

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Small scale

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Small details

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Large scale

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Large details

66
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Cartographic scale refers to

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Inches or centimeters to real life scale on map, can be a fraction (RF), a written statement, or a graphic bar

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Geographic scale

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What territory is shown by the map

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Examples of geographic scale

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Global, regional, national, or local

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Scale of analysis

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How data is combined on a map, what is being surveyed

70
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Examples of scale of analysis

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Local, national, global, regional

71
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What are the types of regions?

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Formal, nodal, or vernacular

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Formal regions

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Defined by boundaries, think stack the states

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Functional regions (nodal)

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Have a center or node or focal point

74
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Perceptual regions

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Regions defined by a mindset, like the American south or china town

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Regionalization

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A tendency of countries to form decentralized regions (AKA being more loyal to something else, their own region rather than the bigger picture)

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Enviornmental determinsisim believes

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The environment determines cultural factors

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Environmental possibilism

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Human behavior is bot limited by the environment, our innovation determines it (think of the drainage of water in Greenland bro)

AP Human Geography 27 (15 decks)

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