Unit 1 Vocab

Question 1

Spatial

Answer 1

connection between where things are located in the space on the Earth’ surface

Question 2

Human maps

Answer 2

where humans lives, their way of life, their interactions with the world

Question 3

Physical maps

Answer 3

Places, spatial perspective, what where, why

Question 4

Projection

Answer 4

When a curved surface is depicted on a flat surface

Question 5

Scale

Answer 5

a ratio of the length or distance on the map versus the length or distance on the Earth or ground

Question 6

Formal region

Answer 6

are characterized by homogeneity in one or a number of different characteristics

Question 7

Functional region

Answer 7

which is sometimes called a nodal region or focal point to which other places in the region are connected by some activity

Question 8

Longitude

Answer 8

up and down (meridians)

Question 9

Latitude

Answer 9

side to side (parralels)

Question 10

Meridians

Answer 10

half circles that connect the north and south poles (longitude)

Question 11

Prime meridian

Answer 11

located at 0 degrees

Question 12

Equator

Answer 12

imaginary line around the Earth equally distant from each other, divinding the Earth into poles

Question 13

Parallels

Answer 13

circles that encompass the Earth to the equator (latitude) north - south

Question 14

International date line

Answer 14

along 180 degrees longitude, date/ day changes when crossing it; not directly on 180

Question 15

Distortion

Answer 15

the misinterpretation of shape, area, distance, or direction between geographic features when compared to their true measurements on Earth

Question 16

diffusion

Answer 16

spread of ideas, object, inventions from place to place (spread of mexican food)

Question 17

relocation diffusion

Answer 17

when people migrate they bring their ideas, objects, inventions (immigrants moving to LA - big hispanic population)

Question 18

expansion diffusion

Answer 18

spread outward from a core area that contains the idea, cultural practice (dunks - TT - everyone)

Question 19

environmental determinism

Answer 19

the idea that the natural or physical enviroment shapes and creates cultures (people that natives who lived in the tropics were backwards because finding food would be easy)

Question 20

environmental possibilism

Answer 20

the way people can adapt to their environmental conditions, despite limitations they might pose (skiing in the Middle East)