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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
23 degrees 26 minutes north
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Tropic of Capricorn
23 degrees 26 minutes south
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Lines of longitude are similar to
Y axis
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Lines of latitude can be compared to the
X axis
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Absolute location
Can be address, latitude and longitude, EXACT, PRECISE
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Relative Location
Where something is in comparison to places you know (Oh that restaurant is south of my house)
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Absolute Distance
Precise, Miles, KM, feet.
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Relative distance
Think about SPATIAL INTERACTION, and how amazon has decreased the relative distance of things through connections
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Time Space Compression
Shrinking of time distance between locations because of transportation and communication
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How do you measure coordinates?
Degrees, then minutes, then seconds
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The study of population is
Demography
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How does the amount of people somewhere impact society?
It will determine policies, procedures and funding
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GPS
Satellites measure absolute location with GPS receivers, USED FOR NAVIGATION
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Aerial Photography
What it sounds like, pictures taken from the sky
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GIS
Computers that store data on different features, layers could be of crime, pollution, or really can measure anything
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Remote Sensing
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?
What? Where? Why there? Why care? Patterns?
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Sense of Place is
Factors that contribute to the uniqueness
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Cultural landscape
Physical artifacts that make up landscape
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Placelessnesss
No distinct attributes, like a strip mall
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Toponym
Locations name
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Site
Environmental features (think, what is in my sight?)
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Situation
Where something is situated in relation to other places
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What do geographers emphasize?
Patterns, processes to make connections
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Spatial Patterns
Refers to distribution
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Distribution includes what?
Density, concentration, and pattern
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Density
Amount of something in space, dense or sparse
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Concentration can be
Clustered or dispersed (how it is spread out)
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Clustering
When objects in an area are close together
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Dispersed
When objects in an area are far apart
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Pattern
How objects are arranged in space
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Linear distribution
Phenomena are arranged in a straight line
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Circular
Phenomena are usually spaced from a central point, forming a circle
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Geometric
Phenomena are in a regular arrangement
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random
Phenomena have no order
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What is spatial interaction?
Connections, contacts, movement and flow of things between places
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Distance decay
The interaction between two places declines as the distance increases due to cultural and physical barriers
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First Law of Geography
Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.
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What is scale
How zoomed in or out a map or image is, VISIBILITY
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Small scale
Small details
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Large scale
Large details
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Cartographic scale refers to
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
What territory is shown by the map
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Examples of geographic scale
Global, regional, national, or local
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Scale of analysis
How data is combined on a map, what is being surveyed
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Examples of scale of analysis
Local, national, global, regional
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What are the types of regions?
Formal, nodal, or vernacular
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Formal regions
Defined by boundaries, think stack the states
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Functional regions (nodal)
Have a center or node or focal point
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Perceptual regions
Regions defined by a mindset, like the American south or china town
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Regionalization
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
The environment determines cultural factors
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Environmental possibilism
Human behavior is bot limited by the environment, our innovation determines it (think of the drainage of water in Greenland bro)

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