What is Geographers call the physical gap or distance between two objects?
100
What is the Spatial Perspective
What is The common bond that distinguishes geographers from other social science scholars in their interest
100
What is a small amount of land space
What does a map with a large scale usually show?
100
What is absolute location
What is the term for describing the position of an object or place, on the surface of the Earth?
100
Cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact
What is transculturation
200
What is The "Why of Where"
What is Geographical term for an explanation for why a spatial pattern occurs is?
200
What is longitude and latitude
What is The measurement of an absolute location on earth is usually expressed in terms of
200
What is topography, soil types, climate, and vegation
What are the four physical site characteristics of a location?
200
A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.
What is a map
200
Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture
What is culture hearth
300
The Natural Environment
Physical Geography differs from human geography in that it focuses on?
300
What is Relative Location
What is The prosperity of a city is most directly affected by its
300
What is spacial organization
What is the term for changes that rapid connections among places and regions bring?
300
An image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space
What is a mental map
300
A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban
What is culture trait
400
Who is George Perkins Marsh
Who is the geographer that focused on the impact of human actions on the natural enviroments in his classic work, "Man and Nature"
400
What is the size of objects close to the North and South poles
What is a common problem with maps based on the Mercator projection is that they most obviously distort?
400
What is the creation of census tracts
What is the technology that allows a geographer to store each type of information in a layer??
400
An arrangement of something across earth's surface
What is distribution
400
A related set of culture traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils
What is culture complex
500
Who is Idrisi
Who is The geographer hired by the king of Sicily to direct an academy of geographers to create an accurate representation of the world
500
What is a Contour Map
What is The type of map a hiker would use on rough terrains?
500
What is the U.S. Census Bureau
What is the usually BEST single source for information about the U.S. population by age, race, gender, language, education, housing, employment, and income?
500
A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user
What is GIS
500
Cultural complexes have traits in common such as ethnicity, language, religion and others