Map Concepts
Sustainability and Earth Systems
Place Concepts and Cultural Ecology
Patterns and Distributions
Diffusion
100
A computer system with geographic data.
What is GIS (geographic information system)
100

Fossil fuels are considered this type of resource

Nonrenewable

100
The name given to a place on earth.
What is place name.
100
Objects in an area are close together.
What is clustered?
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

Human modification of the abiotic (non-living) systems happens in this sphere.

biosphere

200
The physical character of a place (mountains, rivers, etc.)
What is site.
200
Objects in an area are far apart.
What is dispersed?
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

Sphere that plays a vital role in the Earth’s water cycle and climate

hydrosphere

300
The location of a place relative to other places.
What is situation.
300
The frequency with which something occurs in space.
What is density?
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

Sustainability pillar - modifying the wants of cultures in regards to shelter, food, and clothing to sustainable objects

Society

400
The physical environment determines social development.
What is environmental determinism?
400

Pattern that typically depict houses along straight lines

Linear

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

The terms used to describe availability of resources in the present and future

sustainability

500
The physical environment can limit social development, but human can adjust to their situation.
What is possibilism?
500

Patterns that are neither clustered not dispersed

random

500

Something that slows or prevents diffusion.

time-distance decay; cultural barriers

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