Introduction to Maps
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| show | The branch of geography that studies how human activity affects or is influenced by Earth's surface
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| show | The process by which businesses and other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale
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| show | The group of practices that meet the needs of the present without compromising the future generations' ability to meet their needs
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| show | A general term for the ways in which a society defines the differences between males and females
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| Global citizen | show 🗑
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| Culture | show 🗑
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| show | The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (such as buildings, roads, and public utilities) needed for the operation of a society
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| show | A two-dimensional (flat) representation of a geographic area or place
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| Cartographer | show 🗑
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| Data aggregation | show 🗑
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| Spatial perspective | show 🗑
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| show | The placement or arrangement of objects on Earth's surface; also includes the space between those objects
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| show | Also known as the "first law of geography"; the idea that near things are more related than distant things, and interaction between two places decreases the farther apart they are
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| show | Graphic elements that help organize the information in a map, such as (but not limited to) dots, stars, arrows, squares, and dotted lines
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| show | A key to the meaning of the symbols and colors on a map
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| show | A drawing, usually found on the edge of a map, showing the four cardinal directions (north, south, east, and west) and the map's orientation
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| Absolute direction | show 🗑
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| Map scale | show 🗑
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| show | The territorial extent of an idea or object
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| show | The distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length, such as a foot, year, mile, or kilometer
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| show | A measurement of the level of social, cultural, or economic similarity between places despite their absolute distance from each other
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| show | A direction that can be described as position, such as in front of or behind, to the left or to the right
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| show | Distance above sea level
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| show | On a map, a line that connects or links different places that share a common or equal value, such as elevation
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| Topographic map | show 🗑
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| show | A map that shows geographic locations on Earth's surface, such as the location of cities or oceans
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| Thematic map | show 🗑
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| Choropleth map | show 🗑
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| Cartogram | show 🗑
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| Proportional or graduated circle map | show 🗑
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| Dot density or Dot distribution map | show 🗑
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| Map projection | show 🗑
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| show | A map projection that is useful for navigation because the lines connecting points on the map represent the true compass direction; however, landmasses become increasingly distorted the farther away they are from the equator
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| Peters projection | show 🗑
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| Goode homolosine projection | show 🗑
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| Polar projection | show 🗑
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| show | A map projection that attempts to create the most visually appealing representation of Earth by keeping all types of distortion relatively low over most of the map
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| Census | show 🗑
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| Fieldwork | show 🗑
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| Absolute location | show 🗑
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| show | The invisible horizontal likes circling Earth parallel to the equator; latitude is the degree of distance north or south from the equator, which is at 0 degrees, as far as the poles, which are at 90 degrees
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| show | The invisible vertical lines on Earth's surface that mark imaginary circles connecting the North Pole with the South Pole
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| show | The zero-degree longitude line that runs through Greenwich, England; also known as the Greenwich Meridian
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) | show 🗑
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| show | A software application for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth's surface; allows the rapid manipulation of geospatial data for problem-solving and research
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| Remote sensing | show 🗑
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| show | Remote-sensing photography that produces fine-grained, high-resolution, highly detailed images
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| show | Images of Earth's surface gathered from sensors mounted on orbiting satellites; these sensors record in both the visible and non-visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, allowing humans to view patterns and processes that are both visible and invisible to the naked eye
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| Relative location | show 🗑
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| Space | show 🗑
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| show | How we modify space based on who we are as a group of people
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| Cultural landscape | show 🗑
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| Time-space compression | show 🗑
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| Interdependence | show 🗑
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| Geographic processes | show 🗑
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| Diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | Occurs when the same or a very similar innovation is developed at the same time in different places by different people working independently
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| Expansion diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | Occurs when ideas leapfrog from one important person, community, or city to another, bypassing other persons, communities, or rural areas
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| Reverse hierarchical diffusion | show 🗑
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| Contagious diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | Occurs when a specific trait is rejected, but the underlying idea is accepted
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| Relocation diffusion | show 🗑
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| show | The inhibiting effect of distance on the intensity and volume of most forms of human interaction; time-space compression diminishes friction of distance
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| Ecology | show 🗑
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| Cultural ecology | show 🗑
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| Ecosystem | show 🗑
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| show | The mental images that comprise humans' perception of nature; environmental perception many be accurate or inaccurate
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| show | A physical danger present in the environment, such as a flood, hurricane, volcanic eruption, and earthquake
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| show | A huge ocean wave produced by the displacement of a large volume of water, often caused by an earthquake
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| Natural resources | show 🗑
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| Nonrenewable resources | show 🗑
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| show | Natural resources that Earth will naturally replenish over time
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| show | Compound in the atmosphere from fossil-fuel combustion, such as carbon dioxide, that absorb and trap heat energy close to Earth's surface
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| show | The global warming trend caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide
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| Environmental determinism | show 🗑
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| Possibilism | show 🗑
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| Global scale | show 🗑
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| Regional scale analysis | show 🗑
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| show | Geographic scale that identifies and analyzes geographic phenomena within a specific country
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| Local scale analysis | show 🗑
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| show | Geographic perspective that acknowledges the two-way relationship between local communities and global patterns, emphasizing that the forces of globalization need to take into account local-scale cultural, economic
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| Region | show 🗑
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| Formal region | show 🗑
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| Border zone | show 🗑
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| Functional region | show 🗑
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| show | Central points where the functions of a functional region are coordinated and directed
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| show | An area composed of a heavily populated urban core and its less populated surrounding areas
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| Perceptual/vernacular region | show 🗑
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| Mental map | show 🗑
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| Sense of place | show 🗑
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| show | Where a person goes and what he or she does on a day-to-day basis
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| show | The awareness of belonging to a group of people within a region
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| show | Boundaries that are disputed for religious, political, or cultural reasons
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| Regional analysis | show 🗑
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