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| Name the 5 themes of Geography |
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1. Location
2. Place
3. Human-Environment Interaction
4. Movement
5. Regions |
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1. Relative Location
2. Absolute Location |
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1. Formal (uniform)
2. Functional (nodal)
3. Vernacular (perceptual) |
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| Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a group of people in tradition |
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| The spread of cultural traits from one society to another |
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Globalization due to interchanging beliefs and customs
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| Globalization due to business |
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| Regular maps showing cities, boundaries, mountains, or roads |
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Maps highlighting a particular feature or a single variable such as temperature, city, size, or acreage in potatoes (Gives extra information)
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Show lines that connect points of equal value
Isolines are on topographic maps
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| Show the level of some variable within predefined regions, such as counties, states, or countries |
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| Use a dot to represent the occurrence of some phenomenon in order to depict variation in density in a given area |
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| Maps that have distorted population |
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| The amount of details or depth of a map |
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Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole, specifically the relationship
between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth’s surface
The three main types of scales are ratio (fraction) scales, bar scales, and written scales |
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| Depicts a large area (such as the state of Arizona) but with less detail |
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| Depicts a small area (such as downtown Phoenix) with great detail |
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| The science of making maps |
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The system used to transfer locations from Earth’s surface to a flat map
The most common type is the Robinson Projection
However, maps depicting the entire world can distort shape, distance, relative size, and direction |
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The name given to a portion of Earth’s surface
Has to be a natural feature |
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| The physical character of a place |
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