VOCAB

Question 1

Cartogram

Answer 1

Map that changes size to communicate data

Question 2

Choropleth Map

Answer 2

Map that uses color to show data

Question 3

Graduated Symbol Map

Answer 3

Map that uses different sized circles

Question 4

Political Map

Answer 4

Show borders of governments by using lines and colors

Question 5

Dot Density Map

Answer 5

Use dots to represent data

Question 6

Isoline map

Answer 6

Used for elevation/Has wavy patterns

Question 7

Mental Map

Answer 7

Not perfectly accurate/Created by a person’s own experience

Question 8

Mercator Projection

Answer 8

COMMON MAP/ Made for navigation and Antarctica is huge at bottom

Question 9

Physical Map

Answer 9

Shows changes in terrain by using natural landscape colors

Question 10

Polar Projection

Answer 10

ONLY accurate on top

Question 11

Concentration

Answer 11

Distribution of density in an area

Question 12

Dispersed/Dispersion

Answer 12

Spread out data

Question 13

Density

Answer 13

How many people or data is in an specific area

Question 14

Distortion

Answer 14

Alteration of an original shape

Question 15

Scale

Answer 15

The relationship between the distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground

Question 16

GPS (global positioning system)

Question 17

GIS

Question 18

Remote sensing

Question 19

Globalization

Question 20

Heterogeneity

Question 21

Homogeneity

Question 22

Regionalization

Question 23

Spatial interaction

Question 24

Possibilism (Environmental possibilism)

Question 25

Environmental determinism

Question 26

Contagious Diffusion

Answer 26

Expands to everyone with no initial limitations

Question 27

Relocation Difussion

Answer 27

Does not change cultures and happens when people move and take with them traits or cultures

Question 28

Hierarchical Diffusion

Answer 28

Limited at first, spreads through structure systems

Question 29

Stimulus Diffusion

Answer 29

Changes a culture based on environment

Question 30

Expansion diffusion

Answer 30

Spreading of traits gaining followers

Question 31

Formal Region

Answer 31

Region defined by facts (same characteristics like population, language or religion)

Question 32

Functional (NODAL) Region

Answer 32

Region that has a center place that impacts the surroundings (Airports, gaslines, water towers, etc.)

Question 33

Perceptual/Vernacular region

Answer 33

Based on people's opinions (ex. rich areas)

Question 34

Contemporary

Answer 34

Modern