measurement of the physical space between two places
What is distance?
100
satellite-based systems for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)?
100
ways of organizing humans geographically
What is regions?
100
relative ease with which you can reach a destination
What is accessibilty?
100
specific customs that are part of everyday life, including language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, & aspects of popular culture
What are culture traits?
200
the geographical situation of people and things
What is location?
200
most precise location of any object or place on the Earth's surface determined by a standard grid or coordinate system
What is absolute location?
200
commuters to a particular city, newspaper circulation, or branch operations w/ a major bank describe what form of region
What is functional region?
200
The first geographers: the Chinese, Greeks, & North Africans were also the first ______________.
What is cartographers?
200
includes visual & performing arts, culinary arts, architecture, & city planning, music, fashion, sports, lesiure activites, & other forms of entertainment
What is popular "pop" culture?
300
refers to the mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet
What is movement?
300
Type of map that displays one or more variables, such as population or income level, within specific area.
What is thematic map?
300
since states exist within the country, counties within states, and cenus tracts exist within counties, the US is what form of region
What is administrative region?
300
a commonly used projection that doesn't maintain accurate area, shape, distance, or direction, but minimizes errors in each
What is the Robinson Projection?
300
dominance of one culture over another
What is cultural imperialism?
400
the degree of economic, social, cultural, or political connection between two places.
What is connectivity?
400
an individual's own internal map of their known world; consists of places they've been to & even of places they've merely heard of.
What is mental map?
400
region with boundaries that are imprecise, vague, or variable
What is cognitive/perceptual/vernacular regions?
400
the idea that with increasing transportation & communications technology, absolute distance between certain places is, in effect, shrinking
What is time-space convergence?
400
refers to how pop culture continually pervades the globe
What is cultural homogenization?
500
belief or understanding of a place developed through books, movies, stories, and pictures
What is perception of place?
500
a map of population density by county in the US might use five different colors to classify density values
What is chloropleth map?
500
man responsible for dividing the US into vernacular regions based on perceived unique cultural characteristics associated with each particular area, during the 1970s
Who is Wilbur Zelinsky?
500
argued that landscapes appearing to be natural had experienced some form of alteration as a result of human activity
Who is Carl Sauer?
500
culture may expand broadly through processes of diffusion, adoption, & assimilation; referred to collectively as