Key Terms
What is a toponym?
Alaska is this type of region.
What is a formal region?
The golf courses in Nevada are an example of what geographic theory?
What is environmental possibilism?
A geographer would use this geospatial technology to track criminals on house arrest.
What are global positioning systems (GPS)?
Flat representations of the Earths surface, showing features like cities rivers, and mountains.
What is a map?
Maps that emphasize the location of places, without specific data on those places.
What are reference maps?
The rust belt is this type of region.
What is a functional region?
The goal of humans reaching equilibrium with the environment; meeting the needs of the present without while also leaving resources for future generations
What is sustainability?
"France is south of the United Kingdom"
This is an example of this geospatial concept.
What is relative location?
What map projection is most commonly used?
What is the Mercator projection?
What is the diminished importance of a thing as you increase distance from its origin?
What is Distance-decay?
A pizza delivery route in Paris, France is this type of region.
Tropical crops, like cocoa and coffee, can only be grown in tropical regions commercially. This is an example of this human-environment interaction.
What is environmental determinism?
2100 Spirit Trail, Dalhart, TX is an example of this geospatial concept.
What is an absolute location?
maps that make the size of the country inflated or distorted to convey the variable.
What is Cartogram maps?
Describing the position of a place as compared to another landmark
What is relative location?
Europe is this type of region.
What is a formal region?
Chicago being a successful city originally built on top of a swamp is an example of this human-environment interaction.
What is environmental possibilism?
A geographer would use this geospatial technology to predict weather like volcanic eruptions.
What is remote sensing?
maps that use color to indicate information.
What is Choropleth map?
Internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface.
The bible belt is an example of this type of region.
What is a vernacular / perceptual region?
The region that would be most productive according to environmental determinism.
What are tropical / temperate regions?
Christopher Columbus' voyage took 36 days. Nowadays, it would take under a day to travel that distance. This is an example of this geospatial trend.
What is time-space compression?
Maps that use lines to show elevation or wether
What is Isoline map?