Vocab #1
"The exact and unique location for every place on the globe."
What is "Absolute Location?"
Attempts to answer the question of where a place is located in relationship to other locations."
What is "relative location?"
"An imaginary line of longitude that is located at about 180 degrees."
What is the "International Date-Line."
The way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs.
What is "Culture?"
This type of region is loosely defined in a person’s mind. For example, your “neighborhood” is loosely defined. Terms like the “Iron Range”, “Midwest”, and “Middle East” are not set down in stone. Instead they are more about your perception.
What is a "Vernacular Region?"
An area with one or more unifying characteristics.
What is a "Region?"
Taking existing technology and creating something new to meet a need.
What is "Innovation?"
A group that shares common language, history, place of origin or a combination of these elements.
What is an "Ethnic Group?"
The spread of ideas, products and innovation from one area to another.
What is "Diffusion?"
This type of region is defined by a function such as a TV station’s viewing area, a newspaper service area, or the shopping district for a local mall. These regions change often.
What is a "Functional Region?"
Cultural modification of an individual, group, or people adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture.
What is "Acculturation?"
A type of religion that believes in many Gods is called this.
What is a "Polytheistic" religion.
A type of religion that believes in the divine forces of nature: wind, trees, sun, animals (everything has a soul or identity).
What is an "Animistic" religion?
The average number of people who live in a square mile.
What is "Population Density?"
The state of Kansas is located in which region of the United States?
What is the, "Midwest" Region?
A type of religion that believes in one God.
What is a "Monotheistic Religion?"
The average number of children a woman of childbearing years would have in her lifetime.
What is the, "Fertility Rate?"
The percentage of people that can read and write in a country.
What is "Literacy Rate?"
Type of government that is ruled by a king or queen.
What is a "monarchy?"
This type of region is defined by governmental boundaries.
What is a "Formal Region?"
Interactions between the human social system and the ecosystem.
What is the, "Human-Environmental reaction."
The mobility of goods, peoples, and ideas from one place to another.
What is "Movement?"
The rate at which the population is growing.
The percentage of land that can be farmed.
What is "Arable Land?"
The state of Pennsylvania is located in this region of the United States.
What is the "Northeast" and/or "Mid-Atlantic."