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study of people and cultures |
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Study of nature, such as climate, soil, animals, etc. |
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WORLDWIDE outbreak of disease |
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REGIONAL outbreak of disease |
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What are the five themes of geography? |
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Location - geographical location of people and places Human/Environment - how humans cause changes in the environment and visa versa Region - Features concentrated in a certain area\ Place - labeling or associated a place with certain emotions or traits Movemnt - mobility of people, goods, services, and ideas. |
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natural features, human structures, and other tangible objects that gives a place its shape |
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imprint of human activity on the landscape |
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allows people to accurately locate themselves by satelite |
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Geographic information system; used to layer data |
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describes the location of a place in relation to features around it |
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Location as measured by latitude and longitude |
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marked by physical criteria or a shared cultural traits |
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product of interactions; not necessarily culturally similar |
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regions without definate boundaries, used in daily life. |
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single attribute of culture |
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combinations of cultural traits |
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an area where cultural traits develop |
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movement of of people, goods, or ideas accross space |
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the spread of an idea from its hearth |
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where nearly all adjacent individuals are affected |
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the main channel is those who are succeptible to what is being diffused |
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when one idea stimulates another one. (eg. The Gods Must Be Crazy) |
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an idea remains strong in its hearth, but also expands outward. |
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involves the movement of individuals |
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environmental determinism |
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idea that environment has great affect on human behavior |
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Idea that environment meerly limits the choices that are available to a cultural group; may be overcome. |
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circles of different size show the frequency of occurence of a topic in different places |
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a single, or specified number of occurences represented by a single dot. |
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the overall statistic, the whole isoline map |
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presents the average value of the data studied per pre-existed unit |
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What are the 3 ways to identify location? |
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absolute location of a place |
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What are the 4 kinds of cartographic generalizations? |
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simplification Classification Symbolism Induction |
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ratio between the distance on a map and its real-world distance |
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the representation of the earth on a spherical scale |
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true direction, distorts poles, used to keep accurate course at sea |
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reduces the distortion of the upper latitudes |
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good for middle latitudes |
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connect points of equal pressure |
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connect points of equal temperature |
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are the lines that connect isotherms and isobars |
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