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| Information obtained indirectly from another source that was previously collected, processed, and made available to a larger audience. | Secondary data | |
| The flow of people, goods, money, ideas, or materials between locations near or far ( the fourth theme of geography) | Movements | |
| A thematic map with lines that connect points of equal value. | Isoline maps | |
| A thematic map in which the size of a symbol varies in proportion to the frequency or intensity of the mapped variable. | Proportional symbol map | |
| A map that demonstrates a particular feature or a single variable. The four types of maps are (1) dot maps, (2) choropleth maps, (3) proportional symbol maps, and (4) isoline maps | Thematic maps | |
| Information collected by the researchers or their equipment without any iteremediary. This can include surveys, interviews, observations, or measurements obtained in the field. | Primary data | |
| Human geography | The study of the distribution of humans and their activitiees on the surface of the earth and of the processes that generate these distributions. | |
| The local human and physical characteristics that uniquely define a place and give it meaning to its inhabitatnts (the second theme of geography) | Place | |
| A computer hardware software system that handles geographically referenced data. It uses and produces maps and has the ability to perform many types of spatial analysis. | Geographic information systems (GIS) | |
| A general-purpose map that shows recognizable landmarks, roads, and political units | Reference maps | |
| A systematic method of transfering a spherical surface to a flat map | Map projection | |
| Explanatory list of symbols in a map. Usually appears in a box in a lower corner. | Legend | |
| The level of detail for dividing a thematic map into geographic units, ranging from a coarse division (e.g., countries) to a fine division (e.g., zip codes) | Aggregation | |
| A two-dimensional graph representation of the surface of the earth (or of events that occur on the earth) | Map | |
| A thematic map in which ranked classes of some variable are depicted with shading pattersn or colors for predefined zones. | Choropleth map | |
| Elimination of unimportant detail on maps and retention and possibly exaggeration and distortion of important information, depending on the purpose of the map | Simplification | |
| Information that has a geographical or locational component | Spatial Data | |
| An area characterized by similarity or by cohesiveness that sets it apart form other areas (the thrird theme of geography) | Region | |
| The absolute position of somethingon the surface of the earth and its relative proximity to other related things (the first theme of geography) | Location | |
| A thematic map in which a dot represents some frequency of the mapped variable | Dot Maps | |
| The ratio of a map distance to earth distance, measured in the same units | Map scale | |
| The ways in which human society and the natural environment affect each other (the fifth theme of geography) | Human-environmental interactions |
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