Unit 1: VOCAB AND READING QUIZ

A system of databases and software tools that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays any kind of location based data.

• Space-Time Compression

• Remote Sensing

• Geographic Information System (GIS)

• Nodal Region

Any information that can be tied to a specific location.

• Environmental determinism

• Bioregion (Biome)

• Spatial data

• Functional Region

The idea that the physical environment influences human culture and limits human actions, but that human cultures and activities are always creatively developed from many possible alternatives.

• Environmental Determinism

• Absolute Location

• Toponym

• Possibilism

An area that has clear boundaries and in which people share one or more distinctive political, cultural, or economic characteristics.

• Formal region (or uniform or homogeneous region)

• Relative Location

• Core-Periphery Relationships

• Human-environment interaction

An area that people believe exists because of popular ideas, stereotypes, cultural identity, etc.

• Toponym

• Functional Region

• Absolute Location

• Perceptual Region

Maps designed to give general information about places, like directions or toponyms.

• Isopleth Maps

• Reference Maps

• Cartogram

• Geographic Information System (GIS)

A map that depicts data that consists of discrete observations. Each dot represents a predetermined observations.

• Contour lines

• Dot Distribution Map

• Dot Distribution lines

• GPS lines

The meridian, designated as 0 degree longitude, that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England

• Prime Meridian

• Elevation

• Map scale

• Connectivity

Circles drawn around the globe that run north to south, from pole to pole, and measure distances east or west from the Prime Meridian.

• Lines of longitude

• Parallels

• Lines of Latitude

• Time lines

The relationship between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature.

• Choropleth

• Spatial Association

• Density

• Absolute Location