Unit 1
Due to its location below sea level, which has made it prone to flooding, geographers say that New Orleans has a bad _______
What is site?
The more accepted geographic term for the word "country"
What is state?
Von Thunen's model places this "shed" closest to the city
What is the fruit shed?
Japan
What is stage 5?
What is Sino-Tibetan?
The idea that humans develop their own culture, and that the environment does not determine a society's culture, is known by this one-word term
What is possibilism?
This is the best example of an elongated state
What is Chile?
His "Least Cost" theory predicts where companies will locate their factories based on the cost of transportation (among other factors)
Who is Weber?
The United States
What is stage 4?
English
What is Indo-European?
GIS, or geographic __________ systems, allows geographers to layer different types of spatial information to better analyze patterns of behavior
What is information?
A geographer's frame of reference when analyzing a map or a phenomenon
What is scale?
Christaller's central place theory arranges cities, towns, and villages dispersed via patterns that resemble these shapes
What are hexagons?
Ancient Rome
What is stage 1?
Arabic
What is Afro-Asiatic?
The uniqueness of a location, and the meanings that are attached to it, can be referred to by this three-word term
What is sense of place?
In 2014, the spread of this disease in Africa marked a good example of a epidemic
What is Ebola?
Mackinder's theory described the importance of the heartland to world domination; Spykman's focused on this
What is the rimland?
Afghanistan
What is stage 2?
Swahili
What is Niger-Congo?
A region that people construct in their mind and may differ from person to person; examples include the South or the Midwest
What is a vernacular (perceptual) region?
The film "Poverty, Inc." explored the work of orphanages and solar panel companies in this Caribbean country
What is Haiti?
Harold Hotelling's model of industrial location centers around this one-word principle
What is agglomeration?
Canada
What is stage 4?
Japanese
What is Japanese-Korean?