4809548193 | Cartography | Making maps/ drawing maps/ map of California is a cartograph | 0 | |
4809548194 | Diffusion | The spread of an idea, thought or good/ spreading things/ fry sauce was diffused from Utah | 1 | |
4809577546 | Contagious Diffusion | Rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population/ something that spreads by contact via info/ fry sauce might start in Utah then spread to Nevada then Nevada might spread it to other states | 2 | |
4809587006 | Cultural ecology | Study of human adaption to social and physical environment/ how u adapt to things/ might adapt to a new friend group | 3 | |
4814445847 | Culture | Human achievement regarded collectively/ what we do as a social group/ making clay pots might be part of your culture | 4 | |
4814509159 | Density | Compactness of a substance/ how much is in a certain thing/ density of a rubber ball | 5 | |
4814509160 | Distance decay | Distance on cultural or spatial interactions/ farther away people go the less they interact/ buyer and seller move to a different part of the city they experience distance decay | 6 | |
4814615092 | Distribution | Action of sharing something out among a number of recipients/ sharing info to different people/ he distributed the data to his co workers | 7 | |
4814615093 | Environmental determinism | Environment makes a challenge for humans/ environment forces us in some way/ Mount Everest is an environment determinism | 8 | |
4814615094 | Equator | Imaginary Horizontal arc that runs across the globe/ the arc that goes across the earth/ Africa is in the equator | 9 | |
4814615095 | Expansion diffusion | Trend is spread outward from its starting place/ trend spread outward/ joggers might have had an expansion diffusion | 10 | |
4814615096 | Formal region | Places with same characteristics in the sane area/ area with same characteristics in one place/ same buildings, color of house | 11 | |
4814615097 | Friction of distance | Distance requires money or effort to overcome/ airplane ride costs money and time | 12 | |
4814615098 | Functional region | Location is made around a node/ place is made around a center place/ downtown SLC was made and SLC was made around it | 13 | |
4814615099 | GIS | Satellite that forms maps using images/ google maps | 14 | |
4814615100 | GPS | Global Positioning System, that provides location and time/ satellite that shows where u are/ GPS maps | 15 | |
4814615101 | Hierarchical diffusion | Hierarchical diffusion is the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or place/ idea that spreads from one person to authority to different places/ car industry might spread with hierarchical diffusion | 16 | |
4814615102 | Hearth | Originating place of anything/ starting place/ hearth of Americans is Europe but we traveled here | 17 | |
4814615103 | International date line | Vertical line 180 degrees east or west of prime meridian/ line east or west of meridian | 18 | |
4814615104 | Latitude | Imaginary Arc that goes east to west on the globe used for navigating/ 38 degrees latitude | 19 | |
4814615105 | Longitude | Imaginary line that runs north and south used for navigating/ 42 degrees longitude | 20 | |
4814615106 | Mercator projection | Is a map that correctly uses longitude and latitude but messes up size/ space right size wrong | 21 | |
4814615107 | Possibilism | When we overcome natures boundaries/ we overcome nature/ Mount Everest used to be impossible to climb but we overcame it | 22 | |
4814615108 | Projection | Presentation of an image, trying to make a sphere appear on a map | 23 | |
4814615109 | Relocation diffusion | Spread of an idea through physical interaction/ spreading a disease | 24 | |
4814615110 | Remote sensing | Scanning of earth by aircraft/ scanning pics via aircraft/ GIS | 25 | |
4814615111 | Robinson projection | Map that shows correct size and space | 26 | |
4814615112 | Scale | Ration between model and actual globe/ ratio of world to model/ map, small globe | 27 | |
4814615113 | Site | Where the place actually is/ absolute location/ where dans is | 28 | |
4814615114 | Situation | Where the place is in relation to other places/ dans is by bowling alley and by great clips | 29 | |
4814615115 | Space time compression | Bringing people together in connectivity even though they might still be the same distance away/ people are connecting closer from greater distances/ connecting with other countries and we are closer together | 30 | |
4814615116 | Spatial analysis | Examining locations places and space around the w | 31 | |
4814615117 | Stimulus diffusion | People receive a culture element but make it unique/ making others culture your own but changing it a bit | 32 | |
4814615118 | Time zones | 24 hour different zones that change by 1 hour by each time zone/ California and Utah have different time zones | 33 | |
4814615119 | Toponym | Places name/ SLC | 34 | |
4814615120 | Uneven development | Persistent differences in levels and rates of economic development/ differences in economic development/ chile vs USA | 35 | |
4814615121 | Vernacular region | Not actually on the map but the place where different social groups are/ Navajo | 36 | |
4880903550 | Age distribution | 37 |
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