What d'ya call that?
The term that refers to both human and physical characteristics of a place
What is Place?
Identify the three different types of regions.
What are the Formal, Functional, and Vernacular regions?
The name for a type of computer system that captures, stores, analyzes and displays geographic data
What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?
The term that identifies the region from which innovative ideas originate
What is a Hearth?
Neah Bay, Washington has a maritime climate heavily influenced by the Pacific Ocean. The warmest month is August and the coldest month is December. This is an example of Neah Bay's
What is Site?
The term that refers to the location of a place relative to other places
What is Situation?
The area in which Pizza Hut delivers pizza
What is a Functional region?
This type of projection is shape distorted very little and direction is consistent. This was preferred by navigators and sailors.
What is a Mercator Projection?
Expansion diffusion may result from three processes. List all three.
What are Hierarchical, stimulus, and contagious diffusion?
a place name, especially one derived from a topographical feature
What is a Toponym?
The term for a system used to transfer locations from earth surface to a map
What is Projection?
This type of region is a place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. It derives from an informal sense of place.
What is a Perceptual or Vernacular Region?
A small-scale map shows
What is a Large area in a small amount of detail?
This is an example: A family from Thailand has recently migrated to the United States and opened a Thai restaurant.
What is Relocation diffusion?
This late 19th century theory states that the environment causes social development and that climate is a major determinant of civilization.
What is Environmental determinism?
The name of the theory that says that people adjust to the environment and choose a course of action?
What is Environmental Possibilism?
This type of region is also called a uniform or homogeneous region and is an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics
What is a Formal Region?
The name for the science of map making
What is Cartography?
The idea that new transportation and communication systems have reduced the rate at which something diffuses
What is Time-space compression?
New Orleans is located near the mouth of the largest river system on the continent. Millions of tons of cargo are transferred between ocean ships and other modes of transportation. This is an example of New Orleans'
What is Situation?
The name of the geographic study of human-environment relationships
What is Cultural Ecology?
The "Wheat Belt" is this type of region
What is a Perceptual or Vernacular Region?
This type of map categorizes a variable into classes and depicts each class with different shading patterns or colors
What is a Choropleth map?
The acceptance of something new becomes less likely the longer it takes to reach its adopters and the farther it moves from its hearth.
What is Distance decay?
The fashioning of the natural landscape by a cultural group
What is Cultural Landscape?