Unit 1 Flashcards
Absolute Location
A percise position on earths surface.
Choropleth Map
A thematic map that shows data arranged from a specific geographic area.
Cultural Ecology
The study of interaction between scioty and there local enviorment.
Cultural landscape
The build forms that cultural groups create when
inhabiting earth.
Environmental determinism
The belife that physical is the domant force shaping cultures.
Functional Region
A geographic area orgnized to function polliticly
Global Positing System
24 satalittes orbit earth twice a day and transmit radio signals to earth.
Hierarchical Diffusion
occurs when ideas leapfrog from one important person, community or city to another.
Inferstructer
Basic physical and orginizatinal structures needed for scioty opparate.
Mercator Projection
Projection used for navagation, lines repersent true compass direction.
Nodes
Central point where function of region are coordinated directly
Nonrenewable Resources
Natrul resurces avalible in limated quantaties.
Possibilism
Any physical enviorment that offers possible ways for scioty to devolpe.
Relocation Diffusion
occurs when individuals or groups with a particular idea practice migrate from one location to the next.
Satellite Imagery
Images of earths surface gathered from sensors mounted on satalittes.
