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21 Cards in this Set
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What is geography?
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Analyzes and explains human and environmental phenomena and processes taking place on the earths surface
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What is cartography?
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Develops the theories, concepts, and skills for describing and visualizing the things and events or patterns and processes from geography
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What is scale?
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How close objects are on paper or on the screen depends on the relationship between the size of the representation and the actual are on the ground
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What are the three most common types of maps?
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thematic, topographic, cadastral
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What is a thematic map?
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show specific topics and their geographic relationships and distributions
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What is a topographic map?
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show physical characteristics of land in an area and the built changes in the landscape
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What is an example of a thematic map?
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weather forcast, election results, poverty, soil types, the spread of a virus
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What is a cadastral map?
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show how land is divided into real property, and sometimes the kinds of built improvements
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What is GIS?
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Geographic Information systems- concerned with the underlying theories and concepts of geographic information
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Cartographic framework
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set of normative and acceptable ways for showing things, events, space, relationships and associations
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Conventions
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the actual ways of representing and communicating in maps and geographic information (unstated guidelines for representation)
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Projections
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how geographic locations on the round earth are shown on a flat map or coordinate system-- biggest choices affecting quality
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Coordinate system
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related to a projection, especially pertinent for geographic information, which can easily be combined with other geographic information when its in the same projection
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Symbols
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how things and events are communicated-- affects quality
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Geographic representation
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Deciding how to show things and events
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Cartographic representation
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can support various representations, contingent on a number of parameters--notably scale
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Geographic information is NOT
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data
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For data to become information...
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it must put relationships with a purpose and (potential) use
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Things refer to
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static and undynamic representations of something in the world
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Events refer to
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dynamic changes
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Frameworks are
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rules and procedures for dealing with the complexity of choices
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