Maps and Tools
The science of making maps is called ___.
What is cartography?
The exact coordinates of a place on Earth, using latitude and longitude, are called ___.
What is absolute location?
The spread of people, ideas, or objects from one place to another is called ___
What is diffusion?
The frequency of something occurring in a given area is called ___.
What is density?
The use of Earth’s resources in a way that preserves them for future generations is called ___.
What is sustainability?
This tool helps determine the precise location of something using satellites.
What is GPS?
The name given to a place on Earth is called a ___.
What is a toponym?
The spread of a new trend from a major city to smaller cities and towns is an example of ___.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
The arrangement of objects, such as streets in a grid, is called ___.
What is pattern?
This concept states that the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people can adapt to their environment.
What is possibilism?
A map projection that maintains accurate shape but distorts size near the poles is ___.
What is the Mercator projection?
A region organized around a central point, like a city and its surrounding suburbs, is called a ___.
What is a functional region?
When people physically move and bring their cultural practices with them, this is called _
What is relocation diffusion?
If objects are closely spaced together, they are considered to be ___.
What is clustered?
The idea that the physical environment directly causes human social development is called ___.
What is environmental determinism?
his system layers various types of geographic data, such as roads and population density, to analyze locations.
What is GIS (Geographic Information Systems)?
The concept that refers to a place’s physical characteristics, such as climate, topography, and vegetation, is ___.
What is site?
The spread of an innovation or characteristic through the population, similar to the spread of a contagious disease, is called ___.
What is contagious diffusion?
The spread of something over a given area, whether clustered or dispersed, is called ___.
What is concentration?
Land that has been drained of water and is now used for farming, especially in the Netherlands, is called a ___.
What is a polder?
Collecting data about Earth's surface using satellites is called ___.
What is remote sensing?
A region that exists in people's perceptions, often based on cultural identity, is called a ___.
What is a vernacular region?
When a key idea or innovation spreads but is changed or adapted by the recipients, this is known as ___.
What is stimulus diffusion?
As distance between places increases, the likelihood of interaction decreases. This is called ___.
What is distance decay?
The three pillars of sustainability are ___.
What are environmental, economic, and social?