Map Skills
This line cuts the earth into a northern and a southern hemisphere
What is the Equator?
Addresses and longitude/latitude coordinates
What is absolute location?
The rate of deaths per 1,000 live births
IMR or Infant Mortality Rate
Coca-Cola, blue jeans, hip hop; when culture spreads over a wide geographic area
pop culture
Maori Haka, Gullah, Creole; culture practiced in isolated areas and passed down through generations; unique to a specific area
Folk culture
Prime Meridian, 0 to 180 degrees, marks Eastern and Western Hemispheres
What is Longitude?
Next to, East of, 1 hour north of, SHHS is next to Chapin MS
relative location
Births = Deaths
Zero Population Growth
When a culture avoids a specific item or actions
taboo
When an ethnic group completely blends with the larger culture
Assimilation
This type of map shows the boundaries of countries, states & provinces
Political
wearing a sweater, building a dam, Lake Murray
Human Environment Interaction HEI
exceeding the number of people that the environment can support
overpopulation
immigrants maintaining elements of their original culture is an example of
acculturation
When a culture spreads from one place to neighboring places
What is Contagious or Expansion Diffusion
used for examining the height of mountain ranges
What is a topographical map?
Tall buildings, democracy, tropical describe Honolulu
What is Place?
being forced from their homeland and scattered throughout the world
Diaspora
measures the number of births within a society?
fertility rate
When a culture trait spreads to other places because of travel or immigration
Relocation Diffusion
maps that use data to show information instead of the size of the actual shape of a country
Cartogram map
Jello belt, Rust belt, a continent, SW U.S.
What is region?
When a population advances through the Agricultural, Industrial, medical revolutions they enter ___ of the DTM
Stage 3
School districts, bus routes, voting precincts, garbage routes, zip codes, area codes
Functional Regions
when a culture spreads from someone who is popular or powerful to the average person or from large cities to small towns
Hierarchical Diffusion