Ya Basic
The name given to a portion of the Earth’s surface.
What is a toponym?
This is the process of mapping the Earth on a flat surface.
Polish being spoken on the Northwest side of Chicago is an example of this type of diffusion.
What is relocation diffusion?
A region defined by cultural perceptions (like “the South”)
What is a vernacular region?
The scale of analysis when looking at a map of Illinois that has political majorities separated by county.
What is county?
Secondary economic activities involve this type of work.
Manufacturing
The most common distortion seen on a Mercator Projection.
What is Hierarchical diffusion?
The concept of “place” in geography refers to this.
What is a location with distinctive human and physical characteristics?
"Dispersed" and "clustered" are types of this phenomenon.
What is a concentration?
The geographic philosophy that suggests humans dominate their environment.
What is possibilism?
A detailed map of Chicago city streets with businesses, parks, and schools labeled would be THIS scale.
What is a large scale?
The spread of an idea (i.e. McDonalds) to another place in a different form is this type of diffusion.
What is stimulus diffusion?
A region that covers the area in which a radio station is able to broadcast.
What is a functional/nodal region?
Linear, random, and circular are types of this phenomenon.
What is distribution?
This term refers to the physical characteristics of a place—such as climate, soil, and topography—while its counterpart refers to the place’s relative location compared to other places.
What are site and situation?
The method for depicting information on a Choropleth Map.
What is shading or coloring?
This is the point from which phenomenon or ideas originate and then, spread.
What is a Hearth?
The concept that landscape/climate dominate human actions
What is environmental determinism?
Analyzing data at local, regional, national, or global levels requires you to assess data at different...
What is scales?
The economic sector that emphasizes the direct extraction of raw materials from earth
What is the primary sector?
This projection is used to show a fair size of land mass, sacrificing the accuracy of shape
What is Gall-Peters?
The use of video technology that allows people to call each other across the world in real time, as opposed to sending a letter that could take weeks qualifies as this phenomenon.
What is Time-Space compression?
A graph in map form.
What is a Cartogram?
Absolute Location