Unit 1 Vocabulary
A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.
What is a map?
A factor that induces people to move to a new location
What is pull factor?
The belief in one god
What is monothestic?
What are the two terms that Geography is divided into?
What is human and physical geography?
The spreading of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
What is diffusion?
The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole; specifically the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface
What is scale?
A factor that induces people to leave old residences
What is push factor?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheistic
The study of where and why human activities are located where they are
What is human geography?
What are the four ways you can identify location?
What is place name, site, situation, and mathematical location
The name given to a portion of Earth's surface.
The region from which innovative ideas originate
What is hearth?
Energy resource formed from the residue of plants and animals buried millions of years ago.
What is fossil fuel?
Where and why natural forces occur as they do
What is physical geography?
Who was the first person of record to use the word geography?
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.
What is expansion diffusion?
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
What is folk culture?
The addition of more waste than a resource can accomodate.
What is pollution?
Who was the first person to demonstrate the Earth was spherical?
Who is Aristotle?
What is ethnocentrism?
The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.
What is relocation diffusion?
Culture found in a large, heterogenous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
What is popular culture?
The anticipated increase in Earth's temperature, caused by carbon dioxide, emitted by burning fossil fuels, trapping some of the radiation emitted by the surface.
What is Greenhouse effect?
What are the three ways map scale is presented?
What is a ratio/fraction, written scale, and graphic scale
What three elements does the GPS system in the United States use?
Satellites placed in predetermined orbits by the U.S. military
Tracking stations to monitor and control the satellites
A receiver that can locate at least 4 satellites, figure out the distance to each, and use this information to pinpoint its own location.