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AP HUG Unit 1

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Reference Maps   designed for people to refer to for general information about places. (Don't have data)  
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Thematic Maps   are used as a communications tool – tell us how human activities are distributed. (Have data)  
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Clustering   Close/bunched up together  
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Dispersal   Far apart  
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Elevation   using levels of how high/low something is located on the land  
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Mercator Projection   Greatly distorted toward poles Useful for sea travel  
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Robinson Projection   Everything is distorted in small amounts  
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Goode Projection   Directions and distant aren’t accurate  
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Gall Peters Projection   Shape of countries especially near the equator are distorted  
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Geospatial data   all information including physical features and human activities  
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GIS   is a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth's surface  
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GPS   This system uses data from satellites to pin-point a location on earth and help people find their way to a destination.  
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Remote Sensing   refers to the process of taking pictures of the Earth's surface from satellites (or, earlier, airplanes) to provide a greater understanding of the Earth's geography over large distances.  
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Geospatial Data   all information including physical features and human activities  
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Census data   an official count of individuals in a population  
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Absolute location   The precise spot where something is located (address,latitude coordinates)  
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Relative Location   where something is in relation to other things (directions)  
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Space   extent of a area and can be in a relative and absolute sense  
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Place   refers to the specific human and physical characteristics of a location.  
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Distance Decay   a geographical term which describes the effect of distance on cultural or spatial interactions  
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Time-Space Compression   is the increasing sense of connectivity that seems to be bringing people closer together even though their distances are the same  
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Pattern   The geometric or regular arrangement of something in an area  
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Sustainability   The practice of using natural resources responsibility, so they can support both present and future generations  
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Environmental Determinism:   How the physical environment caused (determined) social development  
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Possibilism   the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment  
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Scale   the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole also a concept describing how "zoomed in" you are while studying a geographic trait  
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Scale of Analysis:   how zoomed in or out you are when looking at geographic data  
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Region   a place larger than a point and smaller than a planet that is grouped together because of a measurable or perceived common feature  
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Formal Region   all government areas are this because they share a government One characteristic in common EX: Corn belt,rust belt,Wisconsin,USA,climate zones,etc.  
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Functional Region   United around one center node/point EX: school,radio station,public bus route  
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Perceptual Region   People believe It's a region even when it's not EX:Midwest,South,French Canada  
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Choropleth Map   Colored maps  
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Dot Distribution Map   Each dot represents a specified quantity of a spatial characteristic.  
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Proportional Symbol Msp   Use symbols of different sizes to indicate different amounts of a variable.  
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Isoline   Use lines that connect points of equal value to depict variations in the data across space. Used for weather and elevation.  
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Cartogram   The sizes of countries are shown according to a specific variable. Area is distorted to show a variable. Enlarge countries  
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Quantitative data   Numbers  
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Qualitative data   Research, field notes,observations,stories  
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Global Scale   Shows the world at one level of data  
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Regional scale   Shows data by continent or major world regions  
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National Scale   Shows data for one or more countries  
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Local/sub-national scale   Shows data at a subnational level  
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Topographic Map   a map illustrating the topography or shape of the land surface  
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