General Vocab
Diffusion
Scale
Regions
Maps
100
Modifications of landscapes by human cultures.
What is possibilism?
100
Specialty coffee shops across the U.S. in the 1990's.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
100
Global, World Regional, National, National Regional, & Local are all types of this.
What is scale of analysis?
100
Any area that can be grouped together based on common characteristics.
What is a region?
100
This map projection is more accurate than a Mercator projection in showing sizes of countries.
Robinson
200
Walk around the fountain and continue on the path along the lake,
What is relative location?
200
Crafters in Germany developed new methods of making porcelain after viewing porcelain made in China.
What is stimulus diffusion?
200
What is regional?
200
A region where rainfall flows downhill into the same body of water.
What is a functional region?
200
The size and shape of countries is greatly exaggerated.
What is Mercator.
300
An increase use of electric vehicles to reduce emissions.
What is sustainability?
300
Taylor Swift endorses a presidential candidate and 405,999 people register to vote in 24 hours.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
300
What scale is represented on a map showing towns and townships areas in a county?
What is local?
300
The American West & the American Midwest.
What is a vernacular region?
300
What is a reference map?
400
Native American children being taught English and girls being taught how to be homemakers.
What is assimilation?
400
The Spanish brought Christianity to the Philippines.
What is relocation diffusion?
400
A data chart on median household income is presented by.
What is scale of analysis?
400
Regions that make up the political divisions within a country.
What is a formal region?
400
Printed maps are geometrically distorted due to this reason.
What is a 3D object displayed on a 2D page?
500
A marketing firm will use this data to seek lifestyle characteristics in the U.S.
What is zip codes?
500
Contagious, hierarchical and stimulus are all types of this diffusion.
What is Expansion diffusion?
500
A town planner use a map at the 1:24,000 scale rather than a map at the 1:250,000 scale.
What is the town seen in more detail/closer up?
500
Uniformity in one or more physical or human characteristics.
What is a formal region?
500
What type of map is shown?
What is a chloropleth map?