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Five Themes of Geography

1. Place


2. Location


3. Movement


4. Regions


5. Human-Environmental Interaction




Pudgy Lamb Moved Raisins HE Inspected

Hearth


Where an idea originates


Reference Maps

Regular maps showing cities, boundaries, mountains, or roads

Thematic Maps

Maps highlighting a particular feature or a single variable such as temperature,city, size, or acreage in potatoes (Gives extra information)

Isoline Maps


Shows lines that connect points of equal value; Isolines are on topographic maps


Choropleth Maps


A map that uses differences in shading, coloring, or the placing of symbols within predefined areas to indicate the average values of a property or quantity in those areas.


Dot Maps

Use a dot to represent the occurrence of some phenomenon in order to depict variation in density in a given area.

Cartograms

Maps that have distorted due to a phenomenon

Small Scale

Depicts a large area but with less detail

Large Scale

Depicts a small area with great detail


Cartography

The science of making maps


Projection

The system used to transfer locations from Earth’s surface to a flat map. The most common type is the Robinson Projection, However,maps depicting the entire world can distort shape, distance, relative size, and direction

Toponym

The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface.

Site


The physical character of a place (describes the surroundings)


Situation

The location of a place relative to other places (relative location)

Meridian


An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles (longitude).


The two main meridians are the Prime Meridian and the International Date Line

Parallel

A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians (latitude)

Greenwich Mean Time

The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or zero degrees longitude.

International Date Line

An arc that for the most part follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas.


When you cross the International Date Line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west (toward Asia),the calendar moves ahead one day.

Possibilism
The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. It is possible for people to overcome the physical problems/features – humans conquer land instead of land conquering humans.
Distribution
The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface
Density
The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. Density does not tell you where something is, just strictly numbers.
Concentration
The spread of something over a given area; Concentration tells you where something is; Can be clustered or dispersed
Pattern
The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area
Diffusion
The spreading of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
Relocation Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend through physical movement of people from one place to another. Does not have to grow in numbers.
Expansion Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. Involves growing numbers.
Hierarchical Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other people or places. Example- grunge music.
Contagious Diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. Example- flu
Stimulus Diffusion
The spread of an underlying principle or thought process, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. Examples- Apple computers/Martin Luther King Jr. (he is dead but his thought process still lives on).
Scale
The relationship to a feature’s size on a map to its actual size on earth.
Fractional Scale
Numerical ratio 1:24,000
Written Scale
Description in words “1 inch equals 1 mile”