Chapter 1 vocab

Question 1

Concentration

Answer 1

The extent of a feature’s spread over space

Question 2

Contagious Diffusion

Answer 2

The rapid and widespread diffusion of a a characteristic throughout the population

Question 3

Cultural Ecology

Answer 3

The geographic study of human-environment relationships

Question 4

Cultural Landscape

Answer 4

A combination of cultural features, economic features, and physical features

Question 5

Density

Answer 5

The frequency with which something occurs in space

Question 6

Diffusion

Answer 6

The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time

Question 7

Distance Decay

Answer 7

The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin

Question 8

Environmental Determinism

Answer 8

An approach on how the physical environment caused social development

Question 9

Expansion Diffusion

Answer 9

The spread of a feature from one place to another through a process and is not always immediate

Question 10

Functional region

Answer 10

An area organized around a node of focal point

Question 11

GIS

Answer 11

A computer system that captures, stores, query, analyzes, and displays geographic data

Question 12

GPS

Answer 12

A system that accurately determines the precise position of something on earth

Question 13

Globalizaton

Answer 13

A force of process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope

Question 14

Hearth

Answer 14

The place from which an innovation originates

Question 15

Hierarchal diffusion

Answer 15

The spread of an idea from people or nodes of authority or power to other people or places

Question 16

Mental map

Answer 16

An internal representation of a portion of Earth’s surface

Question 17

Physiological Density

Answer 17

The number of people per unit of area suitable for agriculture

Question 18

Polders

Answer 18

Pieces of land that’s created by draining a body of water from any area

Question 19

Possiblism

Answer 19

The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives

Question 20

Projection

Answer 20

The scientific method of transferring locations on Earth’s surface to a flat map

Question 21

Region

Answer 21

An area of earth’s surface distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features

Question 22

Relocation Diffusion

Answer 22

The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another

Question 23

Remote Sensing

Answer 23

The acquisition of data about earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting earth or from other long-distance methods

Question 24

Scale

Answer 24

The relationship between the portion of earth being shown/studied and earth as a whole

Question 25

Site

Answer 25

Absolute location……The physical character of a place

Question 26

Situation

Answer 26

The location of a place relative to other places

Question 27

Stimulus diffusion

Answer 27

The spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse

Question 28

Sustainability

Answer 28

The way we use earth’s resources to ensure the resources’ availability

Question 29

Toponym

Answer 29

The name given to a place on earth

Question 30

Vernacular (perceptual) region

Answer 30

A place that people think exists as a part of their cultural identity

Question 31

Cartography

Answer 31

The science of map making

Question 32

Formal region

Answer 32

Any area that has clearly defined boundaries. (City, state, country,etc)

Question 33

Chloropleth map

Answer 33

Shows you by county, country, or state where something is

Question 34

Dot distribution map

Answer 34

Lots of dots everywhere that are the same size

Question 35

Isoline map

Answer 35

Wavy lines everywhere, weather maps

Question 36

Proportional map

Answer 36

Dot sizes vary based on the amount of the thing being measured