vocab 3

Question 1

Environmental Determinism

Answer 1

Implies that the physical environment affects and causes human social development.

Question 2

Expansion Diffusion

Answer 2

This is when innovation spreads to new places while staying strong in their original locations.

Question 3

Formal Region

Answer 3

aregions where everyone shares common attributes or traits

Question 4

Functional Region

Answer 4

An area centered around a node or focal point.

Question 5

Geographic Information systems (GIS)

Answer 5

A computer system that analyzes, captures, displays and stores data about the earth’s surface

Question 6

Global Positioning Systems (GPS)

Answer 6

A network of satelites in space and receiving devices used to determine the location of something on earth.

Question 7

Globalization

Answer 7

The interaction between countries and businesses through trade, communication and cultural exchange.

Question 8

Graduated Symbol Map

Answer 8

This thematic map uses symbols varying in sizes to represent and show data.

Question 9

Hearth

Answer 9

The place that an innovation originates from.

Question 10

Hierarchical Diffusion

Answer 10

When an idea spreads first by passing through a selected group before going through the rest of people