Al hug Flashcards

(55 cards)

1
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A cultural trend spreads from paid Instagram influencers

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Hierarichical dissfussion

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A map that is a representation of a persons experience and memories is

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A mental map

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The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape

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Scale

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The rapid global spread of the coronavirus pandemic around the world can be explained by

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Time-space compression

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Latitude and longitude may be used to determine which of the following characteristics of its place

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It’s absolute location

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Some people group Illinois into the Midwest and others into the Great Lakes region this represents

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Fuzzy boarders/ vernacular

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Where are human activity has modified the natural environment in someway is best described as

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The cultural landscape

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The idea of people have the ability to adapt and thrive, despite environmental challenges is

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Possibilism

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The climate effects of industrialization making it harder to grow crops or one examples of how

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Human adaption affects the environment

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10
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A formal cultural region

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Has defined boarders

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The service region of an electrical company is represented by all the places powerlines go to this is considered a

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Functional regions

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Culture transpired by telling people their friends about is anexample of

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Contagious diffusion

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13
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What is the term for the combined aspects of a persons culture

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Cultural complex

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The exact coordinates or address of a location is

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Absolute location

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Which of the following best represents how geographers look at the maps different scales to understand a topic more differently

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Comparing the number of cancer, death deaths at the state level to the country level

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16
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Which of the following reason is NOT why a geographic might console a smaller scale map that includes Chicago

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In order to see the specific lay of Chicago’s neighborhoods

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17
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Which of the following is a vernacular culture region within Chicago?

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Bronzeville

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On this map, the system of Expressway and trains can be seen going outward from downtown Chicago. This is the representative of.

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Functional region

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globalization

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the connection between countries

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resource

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a substance in the enviorment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access. and is socially acceptable to use

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sustainability

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meeting the needs of society while preserving natural ecosystems

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renewable resource

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a resource that is produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans

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conservation

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the sustainable management of a natural resource to meet humans needs

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Nonrenewable resource

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a resource that is produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans

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Preservation
the maintenance of resources in their present condition with as little human impact as possible
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ecosystem
a group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact
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ecology
the scientific study of ecosystems
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cultural ecology
a geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
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enviormental determinisim
a 19th and 20th-century approach to the study of geography which argued that general law sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geographical was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities
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possibilism
humans are capable of anything
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determinism
our environment is the biggest factor in determining our success, and its something we don't have much control over
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food desert
area that lacks healthy foods
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time space compression
the world became more connected because of faster transportation
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small scale map
more zoomed out but with less detail
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large scale map
more zoomed in and has more detail
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scale
distance on a map compared to the distance on Earth
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cultural landscape
influence humans have on natural landscape (Food/burial grounds)
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ethnic enclave
a neighborhood or area with one dominant ethnicity
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mental maps
a map created by an individuals memories and experience
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Human geography
its where and why of everything in the world
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concentrated
close together and a lot of it
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sparse
few/scattered
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density
frequency of which somethng exists within a given in a unit of area
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spatial organization
the arrangment of all types of enviorments on earth
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relocation defusion
movement
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hierchial defussion
power
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stimulus defusion
change
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fuzzy boards
vernacular
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contagious
trend/viral
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functional region
area served by particular function with a central point
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boxed with equal density but different distributions
same number but opposite place
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boxes have different densities
same place but different amount/number
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relative location
uses landmarks to describe the location
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uniform landscape
when a feature of the built environment repeats itself from location to location
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boxes have similar densities but one has a pattern to the distribution
same numbers but one is in a pattern