Maps
Place
Diffusion Types
definitions/Useful Info
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A flat-scale model of the earth's surface.
What is a map?
100

Physical characteristics of a place itself

What is a site?

100

Spread of a disease, virus or any other transmittable idea that requires close contact between two people

What is contagious diffusion?

100

The Middle East is an example of a __________.

What is Vernacular Region?

100

This type of projection displays info across the ocean but has much smaller land areas.

What is Robinson Projection?

200
The science of map making.
What is cartography?
200
A place's location relative to another place.
What is situation?
200

Area around a specific central point or node.

What is a functional region?

200

Satellites send and receive information that determines the exact position of something on earth.

What is GPS?

200
An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
What is the Equator?
300
The size of a feature on the map in relation to it’s size in the real world.
What is scale?
300
The spread of features over time.
What is diffusion?
300

A celebrity sends out a tweet that gets over 1 million re-tweets. This process would be considered_____diffusion.

What is stimulus diffusion?

300

Lines that go from East to West on a map and include the equator.

What is latitude?

300
Has very little shape distortion and is a rectangular shape, but it’s relative size is distorted near the poles.
What is Mercator Projection?
400
24 of theses exist.
What is time zones?
400
Word for the name given to a certain place.
What is toponym?
400

The area that people identify with themselves like road names around your house and job.

What is vernacular region?

400
Parallel lines defining location.
What is latitude?
400
The place where time zones were first adopted.
What is Greenwich?
500
These always have flaws but project the Earth's surface.
What is map projections?
500

Physical features that define interactions between humans and limits the outcomes of human activities.

i.e. Antarctica or the Saharan Desert

What is environmental determinism?

500
The other name for functional regions.
What is nodal regions?
500
Starting point of a trend.
What is hearth?
500
Reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place.
What is space-time compression?
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