APHG - U1.1-3 Vocab - Match Activity

Qualitative

A geographer’s _____ research may involve interviews with residents about how they feel about changes to their neighborhood.

Choropleth

A _____ map uses different shades to show the percentage of a state's population living in urban areas.

GIS

A geographer uses _____ to layer population, transportation, and land-use information to study where new housing is being built.

Cartogram

A _____ map of the United States shows each state's population as a differently sized shape, rather than showing states at their actual geographic size.

Density

Two neighborhoods have the same number of residents, but one occupies twice as much land. The neighborhood with more residents per square mile has greater

Remote Sensing

Satellites collect information about changes in vegetation in the Amazon without researchers having to visit every location.

Quantitative

A geographer conducting _____ research could count the number of stores along several city streets and records the results.

Isoline

A weather map connects locations experiencing the same atmospheric pressure with lines is an example of a _____ map.

Dispersed

Homes in a rural region are located farther apart than those in an urban area. The rural homes could be described as ____.

Robinson

The ____ projection reduces any obvious distortions of area, shape, direction & distance, but does not fully eliminate any of them.

Mercator

The ____ projection preserves the shapes of the continents but fails to maintain their relative size.

GPS

A driver checks a navigation app that determines the vehicle's position using satellites.