Chapter One Vocab

Question 1

Cartography

Answer 1

The science or practice of drawing maps

Question 2

Contagious diffusion

Answer 2

Rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic through a population

Question 3

Cultural Ecology

Answer 3

Study of human adaptations to their social and physical environments

Question 4

Culture

Answer 4

Social behavior and norms Found in human societies

Question 5

Density

Answer 5

The frequency of something in a given area

Question 6

Diffusion

Answer 6

The process of a trend or feature spreading to other places over time

Question 7

Distance decay

Answer 7

The importance of something diminishing as it gets farther from its origin

Question 8

Distribution

Answer 8

The arrangement of something across earths surface

Question 9

Environmental determinism

Answer 9

How physical environment causes human activities

Question 10

equator

Answer 10

Imaginary line going across earth to separate northern and Southern Hemispheres

Question 11

Expansion diffusion

Answer 11

Spread of a feature or trend to other places in a snowballing effect

Question 12

Formal region

Answer 12

Area where everyone shares at least one characteristic

Question 13

Friction of distance

Answer 13

Based on the notion that distance usually requires some type of energy or money

Question 14

Functional region

Answer 14

Area organized around a focal point

Question 15

GIS

Answer 15

System that stores, organizes,analyses and displays geographical data

Question 16

GPS

Answer 16

System that finds the precise location of something using satellite

Question 17

Gravity model

Answer 17

Potential service in a location is based on the population and how far a person must travel to reach the service

Question 18

Hierarchical diffusion

Answer 18

Spread of a feature of trend made by one person or node of authority to other places

Question 19

Hearth

Answer 19

The region from which innovative ideas originate

Question 20

International date line

Answer 20

Line on 180 degree line that splits the days on the earth. If you move to east side of earth the clock goes back 24 hours. Via versa

Question 21

Latitude

Answer 21

Lines going from north to south used to find specific location

Question 22

Longitude

Answer 22

Lines going east to west used to find exact location

Question 23

Mercator projection

Answer 23

Cylindrical map projection used everywhere. Very common map

Question 24

Model

Answer 24

A representation of something. Usually a smaller scale then the original

Question 25

Possibilism

Answer 25

Physical environment may set limits on human actions but have the ability to adjust the environment

Question 26

Prime meridian

Answer 26

Line going north to south on the zero degree line used to find points on earth

Question 27

Projection

Answer 27

System used to transfer locations from earths surface to a flat map

Question 28

Relocation diffusion

Answer 28

Spread of a trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another

Question 29

Remote sensing

Answer 29

Data about earths surface from a satellite orbiting earth

Question 30

Robinson projection

Answer 30

Projection that shows all of earths surface all at once

Question 31

Scale

Answer 31

Relationship between the size of an object one map and the size of the actual feature

Question 32

Site

Answer 32

Physical characteristic of a place

Question 33

Situation

Answer 33

The location of a place relative to other places

Question 34

Space-time compression

Answer 34

The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems

Question 35

Spatial analysis

Answer 35

Type of geographical analysis which seeks to explain patterns of human behaviors

Question 36

Stimulus diffusion

Answer 36

Spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected

Question 37

Time zones

Answer 37

A region of the earth that follows a specific time

Question 38

Toblers first law

Answer 38

Everything is related to each other but closer things are more related

Question 39

Toponym

Answer 39

Place name

Question 40

Uneven development

Answer 40

The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions

Question 41

Vernacular region

Answer 41

Area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity