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Maps
Location
Region
Cultural Landscape
Distribution and Diffusion
100
The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape.
What is Scale
100
The name given to a place on Earth.
What is "Toponym"
100
An area distinguished from other areas by one or more unique characteristics.
What is "Region"
100
The book explains that the word "Culture" can take on two different meanings. Give one.
Culture can mean to "care about something" and to "take care of something."
100
There are three different types of expansion diffusion. Name one.
Heirarchal, Contagious, or Stimulus
200
Which map would have a "Larger" scale? A map of a city or a map of a continent?
City
200
The longitude of the Prime Meridian? International Date Line?
What is 0 degrees and 180 degrees respectively. The Prime Meridian also serves as our baseline for Time zones, where Greenwich Mean Time is.
200
One of Mr. Cochran's favorite movies that has geographical terms in the title?
What is "North by Northwest"
200
Define environmental determinism.
Environmental determinism focuses on how the physical environment causes social development. The Natural environment has complete influence over people.
200
The spread of something over a given area is called this.
What is "Concentration."
300
The science of making maps.
What is Cartography?
300
Daily Double: Which is true? A) Every meridian is actually a circle rather than a line. B) Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end. C) Every parallel begins and ends at the poles. D) Every parallel is the same length. E) Every meridian is distorted by magnetic declination.
What is B. Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end.
300
True or False: The spread of HIV in the 1980s represents an example of a vernacular region.
False. The spread of HIV in the 1980s represents Relocation Diffusion. A vernacular region is an area that people perceive to have a specific trait as part of their cultural identity.
300
Define Possibilism.
Possibilism recognizes the physical environments limitations over human interactions, but acknowledges human beings ability to adjust their environment.
300
This is what the frequency with which something occurs in a space is called.
What is "Density."
400
Three thing that can be distorted by "projections."
What is shape, distance, direction, and relative size.
400
Explain the difference between "Site" and "Situation"
Site refers to a locations specific physical characteristics. Situation refers to the location of a place relative to other places.
400
Give an example of a functional region.
What is anything that spreads from a source and lessens in importance the further away from the source it is.
400
Define "cultural ecology."
What is the geographic study of human-environment relationships.
400
Give a specific example of Relocation Diffusion.
What is anything that spreads through the physical movement of people from place to place.
500
Explain the difference between GIS and GPS.
GIS is a computer mapping system that can store, retrieve, compare, analyze, display data. GPS is a system of satellites that use triangulation and delivery to track specific (or mathematical) locations of transmitters on Earth's surface.
500
Explain absolute and relative location.
Absolute location never changes, we can depend on mathematical location and addresses for absolute location. Relative location changes based on where the directions are from, and relates to "Situation."
500
Give an example of a formal region and explain how it is a formal region.
Any area where everyone shares a distinct, common characteristic.
500
Explain one specific positive and negative effect of Globalization.
Answers Vary.
500
Explain what a hearth is and give a specific example of one related to Diffusion.
A hearth is the place which an innovation originates. The focal point from which diffusion starts.