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| 8578239023 | Mercator Projection | Preserves accurate compass direction and distorts the area of landmasses relative to each other | 0 | |
| 8578239024 | Fuller Projection | Maintains shape and area but loses direction. mixes everything around. | 1 | |
| 8578239025 | Peters Projection | Sizes of land masses are accurate, however, the shapes are inaccurate, especially near the poles. distorts shape | 2 | |
| 8578239026 | Azimuthal Projection | projection with either N or S pole as center & focus, zooms in to any area | 3 | |
| 8578239027 | Chloropleth Map | A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area. | 4 | |
| 8578239028 | Isoline Map | A thematic map with lines that connect points of equal value. (example: average temperature across the US) | 5 | |
| 8578239029 | Dot Map | a thematic map in which a dot represents some frequency of the mapped variable (the more data in an area, the more dots there will be) | 6 | |
| 8578239030 | Cartogram Map | map where the size and shape of the landmass is determined by specific data (takes the variable and blows it up spatially depending on how much of it there is) | 7 | |
| 8578239031 | GIS (geographic information system) | A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. (creates layers of different things with the data) | 8 | |
| 8578239032 | GPS (global positioning system) | a system that accurately determines the precise position of something on Earth (used to make maps and give you directions) | 9 | |
| 8578239033 | Remote Sensing | The acquisition of data from a satellite orbiting Earth or from another long-distance method | 10 | |
| 8578239034 | Satellite | An object that revolves around another object in space, collects info from Earth remotely | 11 | |
| 8602961748 | Functional Region | A region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it, organized around a node/origin (everyone in an area that has the same tv station names) | 12 | |
| 8602961749 | Mental Map/Region | a map inside a person's mind. Influenced by the frequency of interaction with a particular location and gender | 13 | |
| 8603124080 | Perceptual/Vernacular Region | An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity, it's what you portray that region as (mental construct) | 14 | |
| 8603124081 | Formal Region | a region defined by a common characteristic, such as production of a product. can be cultural or physical ex: Iowa is a formal region bc all do the same things there | 15 | |
| 8603124082 | Map Scale | compares a distance on a map with a distance in the real world (small scale is small amount of detail, large scale is large amount of detail) | 16 | |
| 8603124083 | Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places; when something spreads because it is encouraged by a powerful person or celebrity, can spread through cities like NY and London ex: people buy shoes bc MJ wore them | 17 | |
| 8603124084 | Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. ex: social media or spread of plague | 18 | |
| 8603124085 | Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. when you have a whole idea but only part of it spreads. ex: McDonald's is global but in India they have veggie burgers but the idea of fast food spread | 19 | |
| 8603124086 | Relocation Diffusion | the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another, ex: relocating and bringing your language with you | 20 | |
| 8603124087 | Cartography | science or art of making maps | 21 |
