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The local hospital's latitude longitude coordinates are 25°N - 95°W.
The local hospital is located west of water tower in a central urban location.
What is absolute location?
What is relative location?
2-D map projection of the world which distorts the size of continents, particularly at the poles. Useful for navigation and direction
What is the Mercator Projection?
Computer software used by geographers to display and analyze spatial data and earth surface using layers with different information (routes, buildings, vegetation, and other land uses). Applications include: Urban planning, commercial and marketing for businesses and disaster preparation of an area.
What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?
The mostly grassy flat area between the Rocky Mountain West and the Midwestern states (Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, in North America. Known for it's fertile soil and sparse population.
What is the Great Plains?
The Pacific coast states include California, Oregon and this other state which borders Canada to the North.
What is Washington state?
Determined by a node, or a central focus involving economic activity, transportation or communication.
What is Functional or Nodal Region?
Factors such as Water sources, landforms, and climate which influence population distribution?
What are physical factors?
Physical map features which include natural & man-made features such as mountains, rivers, roads, buildings etc.
What is topography? What is a topographical map?
This area is located in the north east corner of the contiguous United States and includes states like Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Think Puritan settlement and the Patriots football team.
What is New England?
What are push factors?
"Tornado Alley" "The Old South" or the way in which an area or region is known for, but not always accurate or definitive.
What is a vernacular or perceptual region?
Factors that influence population distribution based on job availability, infrastructure, culture and government/politics.
What are human factors?
2 theories involving human-environmental interactions development of society and culture.
What are environmental determinism and environmental possibilism?
The eastern part of the United States includes the coastal plains along the Atlantic coast, but also this mountain area which stretch from Maine down Georgia.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The responsible use of resources to ensure future use, particularly with non-renewable resources.
What is sustainability?
What are latitudes?
Ways of characterizing population patterns and distribution on maps. Population in urban areas are ________________ and population in rural areas are _____________
What is clustered? What is dispersed?
What is human geography?
What is a functional region, or a nodal region?
Allows imaging of terrain and topography without having to be in the field or area. Using aerial sensors, satelite photography etc.
What is remote sensing?
An area with uniform and defined physical/political and human geographic features. Texas, Rio Grande Valley, Cameron county, Harlingen etc.
What is a formal region?