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Maps, Scales, and Projections
Regions
Distribution
Diffusion and Location
Globization and Environment
100
A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data
What is Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
100
An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics
What is region?
100
The greater the distance from a central place or hearth the less likely an innovation will be adopted
What is Distance Decay?
100
The name given to a portion of Earth's surface is known as
What is toponym?
100
A system for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is this
What is projection?
200
Relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape
What is scale?
200
The circulation area of a newspaper is an example of this
What is a functional region?
200
A region from which a phenomenon originates
What is hearth
200
Diffusion of AIDS is an example of this type of diffusion
What is contagious?
200
The idea that physical environment causes social development
What is environmental determinism?
300
The Mecator projection preserves
What is direction?
300
The spread of something over a given study
What is concentration?
300
Site identifies a place by its
What is unique physical characteristics
300
Concept that the physical environment limits human actions, but that people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment
What is possibilism?
400
1:24,000 is an example of this kind of scale
What is a fractional scale?
400
The frequency of a phenomenon in a given study area
What is density?
400
New York City is on the Hudson River, approximately 100 miles northeast of Philadelphia and 100 miles southwest of Boston this is an example of
What is situation?
400
Rechannelling the Kissimmee River in Florida produced an increase in
What is disruption of wildlife habitats, disruption of wildlife habitats, runoffs from cattle grazing
500
The most important uses of latitude and longitude are this
What is finding absolute locations?
500
The concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is scientifically related to the location of other phenomena
What is spatial association?
500
The spread of a new fashion first in large cities, and later to smaller towns is an example of
What is hierarchical diffusion?
500
The global movement of money has been enhanced primarily by this
What is improvements in electronic communications