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Helped the field of geography to expand far outside of mapmaking

Technology helped the field of geography to expand beyond mapmaking.

A region based on subjective attitudes about different areas of the world is called a

perceptual regions

To use your to give someone directions you have to translate from your own memory into words that someone else can understand

mental map

Which phrases could you use to describe a place
  • In the summer, the sun shines at midnight.
  • Tears freeze on your face.
  • It is absolutely silent. In the winter, it is dark 24 hours a day.
  • The sky shimmers in fluorescent colors at night.
Physical geography is also known as

Earth science

Which could be a form of bias in a map

When south is depicted as being toward the top of the map

When road is labeled according to federal designation instead of by local names

When average incomes are given as a single number for an entire county

When cities are shown in green and countryside shown in yellow

When fishing industry is shown with an icon depicting a dead fish

When west is depicted as being toward the top of the map

When north is depicted as being toward the top of the map;

When crime rates are given as an average for a square mile of a city;

When area inside the city limits is depicted in green, while outside depicted in gray;

When golf courses are shown but soccer fields are not.

All maps include bias because no map can

Includes everything

Mental maps are about how space is arranged

personal conceptions and memories

A culture is based largely on and of a group of people

Apex lol

behaviors and beliefs

What are the reasons why groups of people leave a particular place called

The reasons groups of people leave a particular place are called push factors. Push factors are usually due to a difficulty such as war, natural disasters, food shortages, or inability to find jobs.

A region based on connections such as trade or communication is called a what

A Functional Region

Major what of geography include physical geography and human geography

subfields

What is the order of this list of events to show a typical story of migration and human environmental interaction

Tribal culture hunts buffalo on grasslands,

Mechanized culture uses plows to turn grasslands into farms,

Climate changes so farms so farms die,

Group migrates away from area

Mercator projection The travels of Marco Polo Ibn Idrisi's world map Robinson projection Arrange these events from the history of cartography in the order in which they occurred

no

Why is Joseph Henry considered the Father of Weather Forecasting

he is considered the father of weather forecasting because he was the first person to forecast the weather

If location is a matter of place what is place a matter of

Location.

What are some reasons to consider San Francisco and Los Angeles as located in regions

climate

Put these layers of the Earth in order starting at the outermost layer and going inward. crustmoho barriercoremantle

Crust, Moho barrier, Mantle, Core

While geography once was primarily about mapmaking spurred it to expand into many other fields.

Technology

By definition all maps are because they include all information about the world they represent.

biased;cannot

In the fictional map which elements suggest relative location

South Island and Vertical Gridlines

In this fictional map which elements suggest absolute location Check all that apply.

A: Hartinger Ocean & B: Gridlines

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