Unit 1 Essential Knowledge

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Types of maps

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Reference maps and thematic maps.

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Spatial patterns

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Absolute and relative distance and direction, clustering, dispersal, and elevation.

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Types of maps

Reference maps and thematic maps.

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Spatial patterns

Absolute and relative distance and direction, clustering, dispersal, and elevation.

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Map projections

Inevitably distort spatial relationships in shape, area, distance, and direction.

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Geospatial technologies

Include geographic information systems (GIS), satellite navigation systems, remote sensing, and online mapping and visualization.

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Sources of spatial information

Field observations, media reports, travel narratives, policy documents, personal interviews, landscape analysis, and photographic interpretation.

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Use of geospatial data

Used for personal, business, organizational, and governmental decision making.

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Spatial concepts

Absolute and relative location, space, place, flows, distance decay, time-space compression, and pattern.

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Concepts of nature and society

Sustainability, natural resources, and land use.

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Evolution of theories regarding human-environment interaction

From environmental determinism to possibilism.

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Scales of analysis

Global, regional, national, and local.

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Regional definitions

On the basis of one or more unifying characteristics or patterns of activity.

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Types of regions

Formal, functional, and perceptual/vernacular.

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Nature of regional boundaries

Transitional and often contested and overlapping.

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Application of regional analysis

At local, national, and global scales.