Maps, Scale, Space, and Place

By:Shane Sampson,Daniel Fischman,and Sarah Gedamke

It preserves accurate compass direction wherever you are.

It is used for ship navigation.

It distorts the area of landmasses relative to each other.

Mercator Projection

It keeps the sizes of the continents accurate.

Used for comparing sizes.

Peters Projection

A map thought up in someone’s head.

Used for directions.

Cognitive Map

Dot maps show an amount of something as a dot.

Used for calculations and research.

Helps to realize where something is concentrated.

Dot Map

Reference-Shows reference information for a particular place, making it useful to find landmarks and navigate.

Thematic-Displays one or more variables, like population and income level within a specific area.

Choropleth-Uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit area.

Preference-Displays an individual’s preferences in an area.

Cartograms-transforms space such that the political unit with the greatest value will be the biggest.

Other Map Types

Relative Distance-5 minutes to the main gate, 239 steps to the hotel.

Longitude- distance east or west of the prime meridian

Latitude- distance north or south of the equator Absolute Distance-Downtown Disney is 7

miles from Magic Kingdom. Site-The center of the Magic Kingdom theme

park is at latitude 28.42, longitude-81.5812. Situation- When diving, there is water in

every direction.

Vocabulary

Demographics

Mapmaking

Cognitive imagery

Making visualizations

Cartography is the science of…

Direction

Area

Shape

Scale

The Mercator projection preserves…

They guide spatial behavior

They enable people too move through space

No two cognitive maps look the same

They accurately reflect mapped hazards

Which of the following is a FALSE statement about cognitive maps?

Never meet

Intersect at the poles

Begin at the equator

Contain the two tropics

Lines of longitude…

35 seconds

216 footsteps

2,339 centimeters

15 minutes

Which of the following is NOT a measure of relative distance?

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/USA_Caps_2_1024.html

http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/toolsforadventure/games/index.html

http://www.missmaggie.org/geospy_files/geospy.html

Helpful Games

Marsh, Meredith, Peter S. Alagona, and Peter S. Alagona. "Maps, Scale, Space, and Place." Barron's AP Human Geography. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 2010. 79-111. Print.

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