AP geo Flashcards

7292120992	mercator map	latitude and longitude are straight, destorting continents and poles	0
7292121880	robinson	Distorts shape, area,scale, and distance in an attempt to balance the errors of projection properties	1
7292122990	winkel-tripel	Scale is true along the central meridian and constant along the equator, distorted in the outer meridians near the pole region, used by National Geographic	2
7292131077	hobo-dyer	Way of placing a 3 dimensional map on a 2 dimensional paper without tons of distortion to the oceans and continents,compressed at the poles but well preserved between 45 degrees	3
7292143639	globe	not practical for navigation	4
7292148293	cartogram	a map that distorts the shapes and sizes of countries or other political regions to represent the frequency or intensity of a particular phenomena in that area	5
7292154411	dot distribution diagram	a map where dots are used to demonstrate the frequency of intensity of phenomena	6
7292159190	map projection	a systematic transformation of locations on the surface of a round 3-D earth on a flat piece of paper	7
7292163921	mental map	an individual's perception, impression, and understanding of how space is laid out	8
7292175573	contagious diffusion	distance-controlled spreading of an idea innovation or some other item through local population by contact from person to person	9
7292185453	sense of place	feelings evoked by people as a result of certain experiences and memories associated with a particular place	10
7292185487	hierarchal diffusion	form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected people or places	11
7292189426	absolute location	identifies a precise location/place often through latitude and longitude of certain place	12
7292196504	vernacular/perceptual region	region that only exists as an idea based on different traits to different people and is therefore hard to draw clear boundaries	13
7292204121	concentration	spread of something of a given area; clustered or dispersed	14
7292218432	independent invention	the concept that a trait was invented in different hearths without diffusion	15
7292223608	distance decay	the decline and eventual disappearance of a phonon with increasing space from its origin	16
7292233757	expansion diffusion	the general spread of ideas or material trait spread outward from a hearth and grows continuously larger	17
7292295909	pattern	the geometric arrangement of objects in space	18
7292303179	site	the physical characteristics of a place	19
7292308190	relative location	the position of a place in relation to another place	20
7292312481	time-space compression	the reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation	21
7292322575	hearth	the region from which innovative ideas or material traits originate	22
7292326977	relocation diffusion	the spread of an idea though physical movement or migration of people from one place to another	23
7292331691	stimulus diffusion	the spread of underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected	24
7292348285	global positioning system	using satellite system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features	25
7292351563	density	# of any variable per unit area	26
7292355420	time zones	24 regions or devisions of the globe approximately conceding with meridians at successive hours from the observatory at Greenwich,England.Each degree is 15 degrees longitude.	27
7292381595	geographic informational systems (GSI)	a collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed all at once or in layers	28
7292481658	cartography	the study and practice of making maps	29
7292516977	what is the great circle?	cuts the earth in two equal halves	30
7292527966	how many time zones are in the US	6 but four in continuous US	31
7292536651	IF you go east of the international date line do you lose or gain day?	you lose a day if you go east and gain day if you go west	32
7292544475	three types of mapping scales	-numerical ratio(1:1000) -bar(visible manner) -phase(i inch= 1 mile)	33
7292553043	what is a location/general purpose/reference map?	location and topography of Earth's physical features ,boundaries, and between other units of government	34
7292578741	what is a topographic map?	the details of physical features	35
7292578742	what is a thematic/special purpose map?	emphasizes single idea of particular kind of info	36
7292857559	Pierce quincuncial	Equal area cylindrical, areas of equal size on the globe are also equal size on the map	37
7292857560	Van de griten	Distortion increases from the equator to the poles,minimal at the equator but much at the poles is most accurate at the 75th parallels	38
7292857561	Dymaxion(fuller)	Distortion increases as the distance from the facet edges increase, overall shape distortion is low, north direction is not upright , direction is distorted however scale is correct along the facet edges	39
7292857562	Goode homolosine	No distortion along the central meridians, areas are represented accurately, is only useful for world maps	40
7292857563	Plate carrèe	Distortion increases as the distance from the standard parallels increase,NSWE directions are accurate but general directions are not; best used for city maps or other places with small areas	41
7292857564	Waterman Butterfly	Shows equator,continental shapes, distances, areas, angular distortions, and relative positions, distortion of Ellesmere Island and Greenland	42
7292857565	Gall-Peters Projection	Equal area, equal axis, equal positions, fairness to all people	43
7293002919	chloropleth	thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurements of the statistical variable being displayed	44
7293194743	isoline map	a thematic map displaying lines that connect points of equal value often used for weather or elevation	45
7293229879	data aggregation	in any process which information is gathered and expressed in a summary form	46
7293238091	remote sensing	the science of obtaining info about objects or areas from a distance, typically from aircraft or satellites	47
7293248739	proportional symbol	a map where the size of a symbol varies depending on the frequency of variable being studied	48