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APHG Chapter 5 and 2
Identity; and Nature and Perspectives
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anglocentric | Focused on the English culture |
| Azimuthal Prijection | Map that Maintains directions but distorts other properties; flat-plane of each hemisphere |
| Cartogram | Map that uses proportionality to show a particular variable |
| Cartography | Process of mapmaking |
| Choropleth thematic map | Map that shows a pattern of a variable, such as population density or voting patterns |
| Cognitive map | Map drawn from memory |
| Conformal or orthomorphic projection | Map that maintains shape but distorts other properties |
| Cultural ecology | Study of Human-environment interaction |
| Data aggregation | Size of geographic units being represented on a map |
| distortion | Necessary error resulting form trying to represent the round, nearly spherical earth on a flat plane or map |
| equal-area projection | map that maintains area but distorts other properties |
| equidistant projection | Map that maintains distance but distorts other properties. |
| Formal region | Region composed of areas that have a common or uniform cultural or physical feature; sometimes referred to as uniform regions |
| Four main properties of a map | Shape, size(area), distance, and direction |
| Friction Distance | Degree to which distance interferes with some interaction |
| Functional region | Group of places linked together by some function's influence on them after diffusing form a central node; sometimes refereed to as a nodal region. |
| Great circles | Circles formed on the surface of the earth by a plane that passes through the center of the earth. the equator and every line of longitude pared with its twin on the opposite side of the earth form these |
| Isoline thematic map | Map displaying lines that connect points of equal value; for example, a map showing elevation levels |
| Mercator projection | Map showing the shapes of the continents and landforms accurately but drastically distorting the size(area) of the continents. maps that show Greenland of equal size to Africa |
| Node | Place form which a diffusing phenomenon spreads to other places; originating point |
| Perceptual or vernacular region | Region whose boundaries are determined by people's beliefs, not a scientifically measurable process |
| Gall-Peters projection | Map created by a geographer to show the relative sizes of the earth's continents accurately. Distorts shape so it is not conformal |
| Physical geography | Branch of geography concerned with spatial analysis of the structures, processes, and locations of the earth's natural phenomena, like soil, climate, plants, and topography |
| Place | Theme in geography that involves the unique combination of physical and cultural attributes that give each location on the earth its individual "stamp" |
| Primary data | Data directly collected by the geographer making the map or conduction the study |
| Proporitonal-symbol thematic map | Map that uses some symbol to display the frequency of a variable. The larger the symbol on the map, the higher the frequency of the variable found on the map |
| Reference map | Map showing common features like boundaries, roads, highways,mountains, and cities. |
| Region | Theme in geography involving a spatial unit that has many places sharing similar characteristics |
| Relative directions | Directions commonly given by people, such as right, left, up, and down, among many others |
| Relative location | Location of a place or object described in relation to places or objects around it. |
| Remote sensing | Technique of obtaining information about objects through the study of data collected by special instruments that are not in physical contact with the objects being analyzed |
| Robinson projection | Map showing the world with slight distorts to all four properties, rather than having one property correct and the other three drastically distorted |
| Secondary data | Data used by a geographer but collected by another source that previously conducted a study and made the data available for future use |
| Sense of place | Person's perception of the human and physical attributes of a location that give it a unique identity in that person's mind |
| Site | Internal physical and cultural characteristics of a place, such as its terrain and dominant religions, among others. |
| Nimby | Not in my back yard |
| CBD | central business district |
| Most common city structure | Linear |
| Range | Distance people will travel to get goods or services |
| Biome | Large area of a particular vegetation or species |
| Permafrost | Ground always frozen |
| staple crops | easiest to store- grass, seeds, roots |
| Moraine | Glacial Valley |
| Docane | Dry sinkhole |
| Skree | Bare rock above tree line on a mountain |
| GDP | Gross domestic product-what a country makes in one year |
| Cartogram | type of map that does not include actual size |
| Net migration | difference between the in migration and out migration of a particular country in one year |
| Potable | Safe to drink |
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