Al hug Flashcards
A cultural trend spreads from paid Instagram influencers
Hierarichical dissfussion
A map that is a representation of a persons experience and memories is
A mental map
The relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape
Scale
The rapid global spread of the coronavirus pandemic around the world can be explained by
Time-space compression
Latitude and longitude may be used to determine which of the following characteristics of its place
It’s absolute location
Some people group Illinois into the Midwest and others into the Great Lakes region this represents
Fuzzy boarders/ vernacular
Where are human activity has modified the natural environment in someway is best described as
The cultural landscape
The idea of people have the ability to adapt and thrive, despite environmental challenges is
Possibilism
The climate effects of industrialization making it harder to grow crops or one examples of how
Human adaption affects the environment
A formal cultural region
Has defined boarders
The service region of an electrical company is represented by all the places powerlines go to this is considered a
Functional regions
Culture transpired by telling people their friends about is anexample of
Contagious diffusion
What is the term for the combined aspects of a persons culture
Cultural complex
The exact coordinates or address of a location is
Absolute location
Which of the following best represents how geographers look at the maps different scales to understand a topic more differently
Comparing the number of cancer, death deaths at the state level to the country level
Which of the following reason is NOT why a geographic might console a smaller scale map that includes Chicago
In order to see the specific lay of Chicago’s neighborhoods
Which of the following is a vernacular culture region within Chicago?
Bronzeville
On this map, the system of Expressway and trains can be seen going outward from downtown Chicago. This is the representative of.
Functional region
globalization
the connection between countries
resource
a substance in the enviorment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access. and is socially acceptable to use
sustainability
meeting the needs of society while preserving natural ecosystems
renewable resource
a resource that is produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans
conservation
the sustainable management of a natural resource to meet humans needs
Nonrenewable resource
a resource that is produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans
Preservation
the maintenance of resources in their present condition with as little human impact as possible
ecosystem
a group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact
ecology
the scientific study of ecosystems
cultural ecology
a geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
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
possibilism
humans are capable of anything
determinism
our environment is the biggest factor in determining our success, and its something we don’t have much control over
food desert
area that lacks healthy foods
time space compression
the world became more connected because of faster transportation
small scale map
more zoomed out but with less detail
large scale map
more zoomed in and has more detail
scale
distance on a map compared to the distance on Earth
cultural landscape
influence humans have on natural landscape (Food/burial grounds)
ethnic enclave
a neighborhood or area with one dominant ethnicity
mental maps
a map created by an individuals memories and experience
Human geography
its where and why of everything in the world
concentrated
close together and a lot of it
sparse
few/scattered
density
frequency of which somethng exists within a given in a unit of area
spatial organization
the arrangment of all types of enviorments on earth
relocation defusion
movement
hierchial defussion
power
stimulus defusion
change
fuzzy boards
vernacular
contagious
trend/viral
functional region
area served by particular function with a central point
boxed with equal density but different distributions
same number but opposite place
boxes have different densities
same place but different amount/number
relative location
uses landmarks to describe the location
uniform landscape
when a feature of the built environment repeats itself from location to location
boxes have similar densities but one has a pattern to the distribution
same numbers but one is in a pattern
