Unit 1 Human Geo

• Field observations- people visit and record
• personal interviews- geographers collect perspectives, interview and talking
• Media reports- newspapers, help people better understand insights
• Government documents- laws put in place show cultural value and priority, provide insights into systems, past present and future events
• Travel narratives- personal perspective, indivisual experience
• Landscape analysis/photo analysis- help people better understand human impact, wild life ect.
• Every map has distortion that impacts direction, shape, area, distance
• Mercator maps are good at showing accurate direction, but theres distortion in size and location of land masses

  
• Goode homolosine shows true size and shape of land masses but distortion in distances

  
• Robinson map- more distortion near poles, tries to minimize distortion

  
• Gall-Peters projection- show true size but significant distortion

  
• Interrupted maps- tries to remove distortion by removing parts of the globe
• uninterrupted map- displays the entirety of the earths surface
• Distortion is the fundamental problem of all maps
• A reference map is a informational map
• Topographic map- shows changes in terrain and elevation
• Absolute direction- exact direction north, south, east, west
• Relative direction- direction in relation to another objects current location left and right
• Absolute distance- exact distance miles
• Relative distance- aproxamite distance (23 hours till we get there)
• Thematic map- displays spatial patterns of place and uses quantitative data to display specific topics
• Chloropleth -show data by different colors
• Dot density- shows data by placing dots where event is occuring
• Graduates symbol- uses shapes, items or symbols to show data
• Isoline- uses lines to connect (weather map)
• cartogram- greatest value = largest area
• Flow line- shows movement using arrows
• Spatial analysis- process of analyzing patterns and relationships within an area of geographic data
• clustered- close together
• dispersed- far apart
• Remote sensing- process of collecting info from satellites
• Geographic information system- computer system that can analyze, collect, and display geographic data
• Global Positioning system- network of satellite used to determine the location
• qualitative- information in word form that is up for interpretation, subjective (observational)
• Quantitative- number form not up for debate
• Local scale- local view, pretty small, can tell where information is coming from
• Regional scale- map of a region where they have something in common
• National scale- map of a nation
• global scale- map of the globe