Map Concepts
Regions
Place Concepts and Cultural Ecology
Distribution
Diffusion
100
A computer system with geographic data.
What is GIS (geographic information system)
100
The prime meridian.
What is 0 degrees longitude?
100
The name given to a place on earth.
What is place name.
100

Objects in a line

linear

100
An idea is spread through people moving to new places.
What is relocation diffusion?
200
A system that uses satellites to determine the exact position of something.
What is GPS (global positioning system)
200
It is separated into 15 degrees longitude.
What is the time zones?
200
The physical character of a place (mountains, rivers, etc.)
What is site.
200

Influences the way people are distributed across space

environment

200
Something is spread from people of authority to others.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
300
The size on a map related to its actual size on Earth.
What is scale.
300
A uniform region where everyone shares some characteristics.
What is a formal region.
300
The location of a place relative to other places.
What is situation.
300
Objects in an area are close together.
What is clustered?
300
Something spreads rapidly and is widespread throughout the population.
What is contagious diffusion?
400
Portraying the round earth on a flat surface.
What is projection?
400
A perceptual region. People believe it exists as part of a cultural identity.
What is a vernacular region?
400
The physical environment determines social development.
What is environmental determinism?
400
Objects in an area are far apart.
What is dispersed?
400
The spread of an underlying principle/idea/concept.
What is stimulus diffusion?
500
A map in which distortion is in the polar regions but all lines of latitude and longitude meet at right angles.
What is the Mercator map.
500
An area organized around a focal point or node.
What is a functional region.
500
The physical environment can limit social development, but human can adjust to their situation.
What is possibilism?
500
The frequency with which something occurs in space.
What is density?
500

Explain an example of hierarchical diffusion.

Swifties, Rappers, President, etc.
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