QUIZ: Vocabulary Unit 1 The World in Spatial Terms

An _____ chart can be used to introduce students to a new region. An ____ chart enables students to systematically examine the economics, social, political and environmental dimensions of a country, and then compare the countries of a region. Here is the ESPN chart used in the globalization lesson.

• ESPN

• ACES

• SPICE

• WGEO

1. the branch of geography concerned with natural features and phenomena of the earth's surface, such as landforms, drainage features, climates, soils, and vegetation.

• human geography

• biology

• geology

• physical geography

the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.

• archeology

• human geography

• anthropology

• physical geography

documents landscape features of a place. These maps generally show things like mountains, rivers, and lakes. Bodies of water are commonly shown in blue. Mountains and elevation changes are sometimes shown with different colors and shades to show elevation.

• special purpose map

• physical map

• political map

• thematic map

focuses solely on the state and national boundaries of a place. These maps also include the locations of cities, states, and countries, depending on the detail of the maps.

• physical map

• thematic map

• political map

• special purpose map

_____ is a type of map that portrays the geographic pattern of a particular subject matter (theme) in a geographic area. This usually involves the use of map symbols to visualize selected properties of geographic features that are not naturally visible, such as temperature, language, or population

• thematic map (special purpose map)

• physical map

• political map

• general reference map

is a type of thematic map used to represent data through shading or coloring of predefined geographic areas. Each area is shaded or colored in proportion to the value of the variable being represented, making it easy to visualize spatial distributions and patterns.

• choropleth map

• graduated symbol map

• cartogram map

• dot density map

__________ map uses symbols, most popularly circles, to represent point data a specific geographic locations. The size of the symbols is designed to be directly proportional to the data value or magnitude they represent so that the map reader can easily see geographic areas where the values are high compared to other geographic areas where the values are low.

• choropleth map

• graduated symbol map

• dot density map

• isopleth map

__________ is a map that depicts attributes of geographic objects in direct proportion to the area or length of the objects. In linear ones, the length (distance or travel time) of geographic objects is scaled in proportion to the attribute being mapped. Likewise, in area ones, the area of a geographic object is scaled in proportion to an attribute. For example, in area types of this uses the area of a country to depict the magnitude of its population (the attribute), then country A, with twice the population of country B, will be represented with an area twice that of country B. Since this type of map does not represent geographic space, but alters the size of objects in proportion to an attribute, it does not always appear visually similar to a scaled map.

• choropleth map

• graduated symbol map

• cartogram map

• dot density map

__________ map is used to represent a specific number of items (e.g., one dot representing 500 persons), and the symbol is repeated until the total number of items in an area is accounted for (e.g., 100 dots representing 50,000 persons). The strength of this technique is that it allows the reader to visually infer density without using derived tabulated data.

• choropleth map

• graduated symbol map

• isopleth map

• dot density map