Vocabulary Quiz #1
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| 7323786091 | Location | n. Relative or absolute, address, latitude/longitude | 0 | |
| 7323786092 | Globalization | n. circumstances plancing people into greater interaction with each other | 1 | |
| 7323786093 | Map | n. a 2D/flat-scale model of Earth's surface, or a portion of it | 2 | |
| 7323786094 | Scale | n. level of detail and amount of area covered on map depend on map scale | 3 | |
| 7323786095 | Cartography | n. the science of mapmaking | 4 | |
| 7323786096 | Land Ordinance of 1785 | n. set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west | 5 | |
| 7323786097 | Base Lines | n. a minimum or starting point used for comparisons | 6 | |
| 7323786098 | Remote Sensing | n. acquisiton of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth/from other long distance methods | 7 | |
| 7323786099 | Site | n. physical character of a place -climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, elevation, etc. -can be modified by humans | 8 | |
| 7323786100 | Parallel | n. circle drawn around globe, parallel to the equator (aka. lines of latitude) North and South poles are 90° latitude | 9 | |
| 7323786101 | Latitude | n. Aka. Parallel | 10 | |
| 7323786102 | International Date Line | n. located at 180° longigutde, not a straight line | 11 | |
| 7323786103 | Formal Region | n. area in which all, or significant majority, of people share a common characterisitic -uniform or homogenous | 12 | |
| 7323786104 | Mental Map | n. shows a person's internal perception of space, not always accurate | 13 | |
| 7323786105 | Cultural Ecology | n. geographic study of human-environment relationships | 14 | |
| 7323786106 | Resources | n. anything that could be of use such as rivers, trees, oil, natural, gas, etc. | 15 | |
| 7323786107 | Density | n. the frequency with which something occurs in space (can be measures of people, houses, cars, volcanoes, or anything, with any method of measurement) | 16 | |
| 7323786108 | Agricultural Density | n. number of farmers per unit area of farmland | 17 | |
| 7323786109 | Space-Time Compression | n. influence on the rate of the expansion diffusion of an idea, observing that the spread/acceptance of an idea is usually delayed as distance from the source of the innovation increases | 18 | |
| 7323786110 | Hearth | n. the hub where individual attributes (trait) of culture evelop | 19 | |
| 7323786111 | Hierarchical Diffusion | n. spread of a feature or trend from one key node to another | 20 | |
| 7323786112 | Uneven Development | n. process by which the social relations of capitalist societies are translated into spatial forms | 21 | |
| 7323786113 | Local Diversity | n. people searching for more ways to express their unique traditions & practices | 22 | |
| 7323786114 | Place | n. Land features, climate, culture, language, religion, landmarks | 23 | |
| 7323786115 | Space | n. geographical space often considered as land | 24 | |
| 7323786116 | Township | n. different kinds of settlements in different countries | 25 | |
| 7323786117 | Sections | n. a distinct part or subdivision of anything, as an object, country, community, class | 26 | |
| 7323786118 | GPS | n. Global Positioning System: system that accurately determines precise position of something on earth Includes the following: Satellites- placed in predetermined orbits Tracking Stations- monitor/control satellites Receivers- locate 4+ satellites to calculate its precise location | 27 | |
| 7323786119 | Situation | n. nominal location, illustrates how one place is related to others and is not viewed in isolation | 28 | |
| 7323786120 | Longitude | n. arc drawn between North and South poles (aka. Meridian) | 29 | |
| 7323786121 | Equator | n. parallel at 0° latitude | 30 | |
| 7323786122 | Cultural Landscape | n. visible imprint of human activity upon a space giving it a particular form | 31 | |
| 7323786123 | Functional Region | n. area organized around a central focal point as "the characteristic" | 32 | |
| 7323786124 | Spatial Association | n. degree to which things are similarly arranged in space. Analysis of the distribution patterns of two phenomena is done by map overlay. If the distributions are similar, then the spatial association is strong, and vice versa | 33 | |
| 7323786125 | Transnational Corporation | n. organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in one or more countries other than their home country | 34 | |
| 7323786126 | Arithmetic Density | n. total number of objects in an area, commonly used to compare distribution of population in different countries | 35 | |
| 7323786127 | Concentration | n. extent of a feature's spread over space; not same as density | 36 | |
| 7323786128 | Distance Decay | n. the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin | 37 | |
| 7323786129 | Relocation Diffusion | n. spread of traits/ideas through physical movement of people | 38 | |
| 7323786130 | Contagious Diffusion | n. nearly all adjacent individuals & places are influenced | 39 | |
| 7323786131 | "Geography" | n. The study of where things are found on Earth's surface and the reasons for the locations as well as the location of people and activites across Earth & the reasons for their distribution | 40 | |
| 7323786132 | Region | n. Characteristics shared with other regions like political, agricultural, religious, cultural | 41 | |
| 7323786133 | Connections | n. relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space | 42 | |
| 7323786134 | Projection | n. scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map | 43 | |
| 7323786135 | Principal Meridians | n. north-south line designated in the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering of townships in the US | 44 | |
| 7323786136 | GIS | n. Geographic Information System: computer system that captures/stores/queries/analyzes/displays geographic data Data is stored in layers | 45 | |
| 7323786137 | Meridian | n. an arc drawn between North and South poles (aka. longitude) | 46 | |
| 7323786138 | Prime Meridian | n. meridian through Greenwich, England, and is 0° longitude | 47 | |
| 7323786139 | Greenwich Mean Time | n. master reference time for all points on Earth and passes through Roya Observatory at Greenwich, England | 48 | |
| 7323786140 | Regional Studies | n. study of world regions, attention is paid to unique characteristics of a particular region such as natural elements, human elements, and regionalization which covers the techniques of delineating space into regions | 49 | |
| 7323786141 | Vernacular Region | n. area that people "believe" exists as part of a perceived identity -also known as perceptual region |  | 50 |
| 7323786142 | Culture | n. body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition | 51 | |
| 7323786143 | Possibilism | n. theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives | 52 | |
| 7323786144 | Distribution | n. arrangement of something across Earth's surface | 53 | |
| 7323786145 | Physiological Density | n. number of people per unit of area of arable land | 54 | |
| 7323786146 | Pattern | n. geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area | 55 | |
| 7323786147 | (Cultural) Diffusion | n. occurs when individual attributes move/disseminate across space | 56 | |
| 7323786148 | Expansion Diffusion | n. an idea spread from a hearth, but remains strong there too | 57 | |
| 7323786149 | Stimulus Diffusion | n. occurs when a change is made for (or by) the receiving population -think hamgurger to even more advanced hamburger | 58 | |
| 7323786150 | Core | n. world region including major world powers and countries that contain much of the planet's wealth | 59 | |
| 7323786151 | Periphery | n. world region including countries that are not reaping the benefits of global wealth and globalization | 60 | |
| 7323786152 | Environmental Determinism | n. a 19-20th century approach to study of geography that argued geography was the study of how the physical environment caused human activities | 61 | |
| 7323786153 | Friction of Distance | n. based on the notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort (energy) and/or money to overcome | 62 | |
| 7323786154 | Graphic Scale | n. can be written as 0|...(100 km) | 63 | |
| 7323786155 | Written Scale | n. is written out with words | 64 | |
| 7323786156 | Fractional/Ratio Scale | n. written as a fraction or a ratio | 65 |
