The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole
What is Scale?
100
best way to show location and demonstrate insights gained through spatial analysis.
What is maps?
100
includes all human-induced changes that involve the surface and the biosphere.
What is Cultural landscape?
100
people’s lifestyles, values, beliefs, and traits
What is culture?
100
prevailing attitudes or taboos
What is cultural barriers?
200
the science of mapmaking
What is cartography?
200
physical characteristics of a place; climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation
What is site?
200
the multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment.
What is cultural ecology?
200
a single attribute of culture
What is culture trait?
200
the main channel of diffusion some segment of those who are susceptible to (or adopting) what is being diffused (e.g. spread of AIDS, use of fax machines)
What is Hierarchical diffusion?
300
a square 6 miles on each side
What is township?
300
latitude and longitude (parallels and meridians), mathematical measurements mainly useful in determining exact distances and direction (maps
What is Absolute location
300
the positive and negative environmental alterations
What is Enviromental modification?
300
Earth’s surface features (geomorphology), limited population near poles and at high altitudes
What is Landforms?
300
a near equal exchange between culture complexes
What is Transculturation?
400
the master reference time for all points on Earth.
What is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
400
extent of a feature’s spread over an area. Clustered – relatively close. Dispersed – relatively far apart
What is Concentration?
400
the natural environment merely serves to limit the range of choices available to a culture
What is Possibilism?
400
long-term average weather condition at a particular location. Vladimir Koppen’s five main climate regions (expresses humans’ limited tolerance for extreme temperature and precipitation levels)
What is climate?
400
when an innovation originates somewhere and enjoys strong-but brief-adoption, loses strength at origin by the time it reaches another area (e.g. mild pandemics)
What is Migrant diffusion?
500
the acquistion of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long-distance methods.
What is remote sensing?
500
location of a place relative to other places (situation), valuable way to indicate location for two reasons:
What is Relative location?
500
human behavior, individually and collectively, is strongly affected by, and even controlled or determined by the environment
What is Enviromental Determinism?
500
the area within which a particular culture system prevails (dress, building styles, farms and fields, material manifestations,…)
What is culture region?
500
an innovation, or ideology develops in a source area and remains strong there while also spreading outward