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33 Cards in this Set
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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 |
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Hearth |
Where an idea originates |
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Reference Maps |
Regular maps showing cities, boundaries, mountains, or roads |
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Thematic Maps |
Maps highlighting a particular feature or a single variable such as temperature,city, size, or acreage in potatoes (Gives extra information) |
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Isoline Maps |
Shows lines that connect points of equal value; Isolines are on topographic maps |
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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. |
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Dot Maps |
Use a dot to represent the occurrence of some phenomenon in order to depict variation in density in a given area. |
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Cartograms |
Maps that have distorted due to a phenomenon |
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Small Scale |
Depicts a large area but with less detail |
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Large Scale |
Depicts a small area with great detail |
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Cartography |
The science of making maps |
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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 |
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Toponym |
The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface. |
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Site |
The physical character of a place (describes the surroundings) |
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Situation |
The location of a place relative to other places (relative location) |
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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 |
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Parallel |
A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians (latitude) |
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Greenwich Mean Time |
The time in that time zone encompassing the prime meridian, or zero degrees longitude. |
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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. |
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Possibilism
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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.
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Distribution
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The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface
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Density
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The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. Density does not tell you where something is, just strictly numbers.
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Concentration
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The spread of something over a given area; Concentration tells you where something is; Can be clustered or dispersed
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Pattern
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The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area
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Diffusion
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The spreading of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
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Relocation Diffusion
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The spread of a feature or trend through physical movement of people from one place to another. Does not have to grow in numbers.
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Expansion Diffusion
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The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. Involves growing numbers.
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Hierarchical Diffusion
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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.
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Contagious Diffusion
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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. Example- flu
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Stimulus Diffusion
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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).
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Scale
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The relationship to a feature’s size on a map to its actual size on earth.
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Fractional Scale
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Numerical ratio 1:24,000
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Written Scale
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Description in words “1 inch equals 1 mile”
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