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Human-Environmental Interaction
Tell me where
100
A city public transport expansion project would use this scale map to analyze spatial data.
What is local scale?
100
26° 11" 26' N and 97° 41" 46' W is this for Harlingen, TX.
Decimal degrees: 26.190649 N 97.696108 W
What is absolute location?
100
The This scale ratio; or size
What is small scale; global scale?
100
The interconnectedness between places is called this. People, ideas and goods move through spatial patterns and form relationships.
What is flow?
100
What is Central America?
200
Costa Rica officials are making decisions on addressing public health issues could make use of this scale size.
What is national scale?
200
The main imaginary parallel line at 0°.
What is the Equator?
200
The data geographers use to analyze geospatial relationships in the U.S. comes from this source; A burea in the government takes it every 10 years.
What is a census / Deci-census?
200
Physical characteristics of a place/location is called this. Palm trees, semi-tropical climate Arroyo Colorado are examples of these factors for this place.
What is site?
200
Where is Harlingen, TX?
300
The United Nations consisting of 195 countries would mainly be using a thematic small scale ratio this size.
What is global scale?
300
The main line which intersects through Greenwich, England and used to measure East and West.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
The survey issued by government tracks population and this. Statistics about the people living in a particular area such as age, gender, income, etc.
What are demographics?
300
Physical environment poses challenges, but technology and human innovation can overcome geographic obstacles, is an example of this theory behind human-environemntal interaction.
What is possibilism?
300
This misnomered region.
What is the midwest?
400
To gather accurate information and draw conclusions, geographers want to look at different scale ratios called this. From small scale to large scale ratios
What is range of scales?
400
This line is on the opposite end of the prime meridian and serves as the basis for international date line.
What is the antimeridian?
400
The 3 scales listed in this data.
What are national, regional, local?
400
The theory in human-environmental interaction which posits that the physical geography and climate shape society and culture.
What is Environmental determinism?
400
Where is San Antonio?
500
A county would likely access this map scale ratio to make decisions related to an infrastructure improvement plan.
What is a large scale ratio?
500
Variations in data between national and local scales can influence analysis and lead to this type of conclusions where they don't match.
What are contradicting conclusions?
500
2 critical maritime chokepoints: the Bab el-Mandeb and the other located NE across the arabian peninsula between UAE and Iran.
What is the strait of Hormuz?