Tools of a Geographer
You could find your car using this technology
What is GPS?
This frequency with which something occurs in space
What is density?
The scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a map
What is projection?
The American South, the Northeast and Southern California valley?
What are vernacular regions?
Memes, Songs, and Movies
What are examples of contagious diffusion?
Geographers can track Hurricane Dorian using this type of geographic tool
What is remote sensing?
As human beings, you have the ability and intelligence to adapt to your environment
What is possibilism?
The science of making maps
What is cartography?
The market area for the Oakland Raiders
What is a functional region?
Canadian Football, A McDonald's Menu in India, and British Pop Idol
What are examples of stimulus diffusion?
This computer program creates layers which can store, capture, analyze and display geographic data
What is GIS? (Geographic Information System)
The place from which an innovation or idea originates
What is (the) hearth?
The relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual size on Earth
What is scale?
This is what functional regions are usually organized around
What is a node?
Ideas that come from those in political power or socially elite people
What is hierarchical diffusion?
He was the first to demonstrate to the masses that Earth was indeed spherical
Who is Aristotle?
A force, process or idea that involves the entire world
What is globalization?
When you have an internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface
What is a mental map?
It is also called a uniform region or a homogeneous region
What is a formal region?
This digital platform has allowed ideas to spread faster and further than ever before
What is the internet?
The U.S Government divided western lands into squares with six miles on each side.
What is a township?
Hurricane Dorian cancelling your plans to hit the beach this weekend.
What is environmental determinism?
The type of map that has a large amount of distortion for Antarctica
What is a Mercator Map?
When a cultural group fashions a natural landscape
What is a cultural landscape?
Hierarchical, Contagious and Relocation Diffusion are all a part of this type of diffusion
What is expansion diffusion?