Chapter 1
The prime meridian which passes through Greenwich England is equivalent to which line of longitude
0 degrees longitude
absolute location example
1111 Main street
relative location
A location of a place in relation to another place (i.e. south or downhill).
A thematic layer is
A map portraying a particular feature that is used in GIS
Spatial Coordinates of latitude and longitude express
Absolute Location
the art of map making
Cartography
Thematic maps that employ a range of color tones to illustrate how particular values vary across predefined areas, such as counties, provinces, or states, are referred to as
Chloropleth maps
Curves on a topographic map that are used to illustrate specific values of elevation above or below sea level
Contour Lines
The region from which ideas originate
Cultural Hearth
combination of cultural features that define a region's unified character
Cultural Landscape
the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its importance
Distance Decay
This concept refers to the spatial arrangement of items or features within a given area
Distribution
The map created by louis and clark could be called a c
General Purpose Map
which of the following fields is least associated with human geography? A. Psychology B. Cultural Ecology C. Sociology D. Geomorphology E. Political Science
Geomorphology
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Globalization
Which of the following is NOT a good example of a barrier for spatial diffusion? A. Mountain Range B. different Language C. Diferent dietary prefense D. Highway system E. A strict religious system
Highway system
In cartography, parallel refers to ____
Lines of latitude
absolute distance Example
Memphis is 1045 miles from Miami
relative location example
Missouri is just east of Kansas City, Kansas.
A method of representing a three-dimensional of the earth on the two dimensional surface known as
Projection
Seattle is located on Puget Sound in northwestern Washington. It has a large university, a famous downtown market, and a moist marine climate. Seattle's primary economic activities include ship and aircraft construction and high technology enterprises, this information gives us a description of Seattle's
Site
Elements of a map
Title Orientation Date Author Legend Source Index Grid Scale
Relative Distance
a measure of the social, cultural and economic relatedness or connectivity between two places - how connected or disconnected they are - despite their absolute distance from each other.
the cardinal points correspond to
absolute direction
the rapid widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
contagious diffusion
A perceptual region's boundaries are
fuzzy because they allow for individual interpretation
The Christian religion in south America first spread by
higher hierachal diffusion
if you wanted to see how the location of the city building in Seattle, WA, you would need a
large scale map
this term describes the location of a place in terms of its angular distance north or south of the equator
latitude
Chinatown is an example of a
perceptual region
land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area
polder
The notion that the physical environment offers certain constraints and opportunities that influence cultural practices without entirely determining them is known as
possiblism
Relative Distance Example
pretty far relative distance between Memphis and Covington; the citizens of both of these cities are very different culturally, ethnically and politically.
absolute location
refers to a specific, fixed point on the earth's surface expressed by a coordinate system such as latitude and longitude
Accessibility and connectivity are two interrelated ways to describe ______
spatial interactions
Conserving resources toensure enough for future generations is called
sustainability
Absolute distance
the spatial separation between two points on the earth's surface measure by some accepted standard unit such as miles or kilometers for widely separated locales
the name given to a portion of Earth's surface
toponym
Human Geography is the study of
who lives where how they live why they live there