Vocabulary
All places have names, usually rooted in the surrounding culture. Place names can collectively be referred to as ____.
Toponyms
This word means to question, and geographers often use it as an investigative method to examine issues.
Inquiry
Absolute and relative are the two types of this theme.
Location
This type of diffusion occurs when a trait physically moves from one place to another.
Relocation Diffusion
GPS will help you find where you are, but ____ is what stores the data and generates layers of mapping including street names.
GIS
Distance ____ describes the decrease in impact of a trait or phenomenon the further it gets from its hearth.
Decay
History is divided into periods or eras, while geography often chunks ideas and phenomena using what?
Regions
This theme can be physical or via communication channels such as text, email, Snapchat, etc.
Movement
When a trait diffuses from the social elite to the common classes.
Hierarchical Diffusion
In our quest to measure the world, humans have created a grid system of latitude parallels and longitudinal meridians. Which of the two always start in the poles and are the same length?
Meridians
Possibilism and _____ are opposing theories on the development of cultures.
Determinism
Region that is defined by one, singular, uniform trait - such as language, physical geographical feature, or political boundary.
Formal
"What is it like there?"
Place
This type of diffusion will spread with no regard for personal traits such as social status or gender.
Contagious
The Mercator projection has many flaws, but it does do one thing right.
Straight lines/compass bearing
The concept of ____ is focused on balancing human needs with the health of the environment and availability of resources, such as the rise of electric vehicles to replace ones powered by non-renewable fossil fuels.
Sustainability
These regions usually have a central node from which the activity radiates out.
functional
Groups places together into areas of similar characteristics.
Region
Sometimes, an entire trait does not diffuse - rather, it is used as a springboard for innovation or modification to suit other areas of the world. This is called ______.
Stimulus diffusion
This type of projection looks like a snapshot of the globe, showing only what one could see from that angle in space.
Planar
Dr. John Snow made use of this type of geographic inquiry while attempting to solve the cholera problem in London by mapping out the outbreak, deaths, and water pumps.
spatial analysis
_____ will vary from person to person: a toddler's may be small, while an adult commuting from a suburban neighborhood to a city for work will have a very large one.
Activity space
Putting on a jacket when it is cold.
Human-environment interaction
AIDS is an example of what type of diffusion?
Relocation
The Goode's Interrupted projection may look like an orange peel, but it does an exceptionally good job at preserving ____.
Area