Vocab
The exact site on an objective coordinate system, such as a grid.
Ex) 2000 Bulldog Lane, Saint Cloud FL, 34769.
What is an absolute Location?
The study and creation of maps.
What is cartography?
The earliest known way that humans obtained food.
What is hunting and gathering?
A boundary that no longer functions, but can still be detected on the cultural landscape.
What is Relic?
Cultural properties that represent the combined works of nature and of man.
Cultural Landscape
The directions on how to get to a place, or not exact location.
Relative Location
What is wrong with the Mercator Projection?
Africa becomes smaller, Greenland is much larger in the map than in real life.
10,000 B.C
When did humans first use agriculture?
Existed before the present settlement. Often based on landforms, such as mountains.
Antecedent Boundary
the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale
obtain (goods or a service) from an outside or foreign supplier, especially in place of an internal source.
outsourcing
Why is there distortion on a map?
You cannot correctly display a 3D shape into a 2D paper.
What are the advantages of Dairy Farming?
What are the disadvantages?
- there is a very high demand for dairy
-Labor intensive, Expensive (to feed cows)
Drawn on an area by conquering or colonizing power.
Superimposed Boundary
the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.
Possibilism
the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.
Environmental Determinism
Gerardus Mercator
Who created the Mercator projection?
Olives and grapes are both important cash crops.
Crops grown in the Mediterranean Agriculture.
Subsequent.
Human Geography
the branch of geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth's surface.