Geographic Technology
GPS, GIS, and RS are all forms of.....?
Geographic technology!
The E in LOPES stands for
Elevation
Practice of judging another culture by standards of one's own culture
Ethnocentrism
The literacy rate of US, Canada, and Latin America is (high/low)
high
Who colonized Canada....?
The French
Is the process of detecting and monitoring the physical characteristics of an area!
Remote Sensing is......?
Higher the ______ above sea level, the _____ the temperature gets.
elevation/colder
When someone sees something viral, people tend to imitate or hop on the trend. What is this called?
Contagious diffusion
Mexico and Panama are _______ countries.
(developed/developing)
developing
Who lived in North America before the Europeans colonized it....?
Native Americans
When you turn on/off a ____ is GIS.
layer
The northern and southern hemishphere experience different seasons/lengths of day at different times of year.
Seasons
Hierarchal diffusion
US and Canada are _______ countries.
(developed/developing)
developed
US economy style .....
Trading
GIS stands for.....?
Stands for Geographic Information System. Stores layers of information and can be overlaid to find patterns.
Places with the same latitude can have diffrent temperature patterns if they are influenced by....?
Ocean Currents!
As cultural traits spread, they are altered. This is an example of ________ _________.
Stimulus diffusion
If a country needs to improve it's economic stability and richness, it is (developed/developing)
developing
What is the political divide in the US....?
Democrats and Republicans
What Geographic Technology uses satellites to triangulate positions on the earth.....?
GPS.
Latitude is.....?
Distance away from the equator.
Explain relocation diffusion
The spread of a cultural trait through the migration of people
New Zealand is (developed/developing)
developed
The language of Latin America came from....?
France