Attempt 2
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| What does Geo mean? | show 🗑
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| What does Graphy mean? | show 🗑
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| How were maps used historically? | show 🗑
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| How are maps used today? | show 🗑
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| show | Where are people and activities found on Earth?
Why are they found here?
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| show | The where vs the when
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| What is cartography? | show 🗑
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| What are the 3 Cs of map analysis? | show 🗑
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| What is latitude? | show 🗑
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| show | The number system used to measure distance east and west of the Prime Meridian (verticle Lines).
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| Where does the Prime Meridian pass? | show 🗑
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| show | Opposite the Prime Meridian on the globe at roughly 180°
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| show | The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole
Displayed as a ratio, written, or a graphic
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| What is small scale? | show 🗑
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| What is large scale? | show 🗑
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| show | How the map is presented
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| What is scale of analysis? | show 🗑
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| show | The entire world is shown
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| show | Shows a specific region; Ex. Latin America
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| show | Shows a specific state or country; Ex. Map of Russia
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| show | Shows an area within a state or country; Ex. Quebec in Canada
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| What is local scale? | show 🗑
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| show | Global, regional, national, subnational, and local
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| show | Location
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| What is the emphasis of thematic maps? | show 🗑
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| Which is more quantitative absolute or relative data? | show 🗑
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| show | fixed point; Ex. latitude and longitude, address
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| What is a relative location? | show 🗑
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| show | physical unit of measurement; Ex. Miles, KM
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| show | time, effort, cost
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| show | fixed frame of reference; North, South, East, West
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| What is relative direction? | show 🗑
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| What is a place? | show 🗑
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| What is site? | show 🗑
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| show | Where something is in relation to other places; physical, cultural, emotional attributes
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| show | The name given to a place
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| show | When the place is no longer special
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| show | The physical gap or interval between two objects; the distribution of features
Spatial is the adjective used to describe space. You will hear and use it quite a bit in this course.
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| What is distance decay? | show 🗑
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| show | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems.
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| What are some causes of time-space compression? | show 🗑
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| What is cultural ecology? | show 🗑
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| What is environmental determinism? | show 🗑
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| What is environmental Possibilism? | show 🗑
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| show | A system used to transfer locations from Earth’s surface to a flat map
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| What are the possible distortions a projection is guaranteed to cause at least one of? | show 🗑
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| show | Advantages: Shows true direction, and good for navigation
Distortions: Distorts area--size distorted increasingly near the poles
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| What does the Gall Peters Projection do well and what is its distortion? | show 🗑
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| show | Advantages: A globe-like appearance that "looks real", and it distorts size and shape minorly
Distortions: Imprecise measurements, flat near the poles and compressed near the equator.
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| What does the Polar Azithumal Projection do well and what is its distortion? | show 🗑
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| What shape are the Mercator Projection and the Gall Peters Projection? | show 🗑
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| show | Rounded rectangle
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| What shape is the Polar Azithumal Projection? | show 🗑
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| What is a region? | show 🗑
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| What is a formal region? | show 🗑
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| show | an area organized around a node or focal point
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| show | an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
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| What is density? | show 🗑
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| What is concentrations? | show 🗑
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| show | Geometric arrangement of a phenomenon
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| show | A representation of a portion of the Earth’s surface based on what an individual knows about a place that contains personal impressions of what is in the place and where the place is located.
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| What are isoline maps? | show 🗑
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| show | Maps that show patterns of a variable using colors or degrees of shading
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| show | Maps that use symbols to display the frequency of some variable. The size of the symbol indicates frequency
Sometimes called Graduated Symbol maps
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| What are dot density maps? | show 🗑
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| What are cartograms? | show 🗑
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| What are topographic maps? | show 🗑
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| show | A map that uses lines of varying thickness to show the direction and volume of a movement patterns
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| show | A political and economic model for economic development. It is a dependency model, meaning that countries are intertwined in a system and are dependent on each other. The model says there are 3 types of states: Core, Semiperiphery, Periphery
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| What is core dominance in Wallerstein's World System Theory? | show 🗑
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| show | primary – resource extraction
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| In Wallerstein's World System Theory, what economic sector is the semiperiphery in? | show 🗑
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| In Wallerstein's World System Theory, what economic sector is the core in? | show 🗑
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| In Wallerstein's World System Theory, how is the core described | show 🗑
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| In Wallerstein's World System Theory, how is the semiperiphery described | show 🗑
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| show | Unstable governments, less wealth, less education than the core, export natural resources to the core, bad transportation and communication, and inadequate infrastructure for economic growth
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| show | Simplicity
Does a solid job of explaining the current global political and economic power structure
The model can be used at different scales
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| What are the weaknesses of Wallerstein's World System Theory? | show 🗑
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| What is the Brandt Line? | show 🗑
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| show | States that are emerging and may move from Semi-Periphery to Core. Useful way to remember semi-periphery countries, as well as something to look for when analyzing maps and charts.
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