Geoscience Quiz 1 Study Guide PDF

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Geoscience Quiz 1 Study Guide  Absolute location - the exact location of a point on Earth found using the latitude and longitude lines on a map. o Cartography - the science of making maps 

Connections - relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.

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Contagious Diffusion - the rapid and widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout the population.

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Culture - the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition. o Cultural ecology - Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.

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Cultural Landscape - the fashioning (creating/adapting) of a natural landscape by a cultural group. o Density - the frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. o Diffusion - the spreading of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.

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Distance decay - the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

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Environmental determinism - a 19th - early 20th century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography therefore was the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.

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Expansion diffusion - the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.

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Formal/uniform region - an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics. o Functional/nodal region - an area organize around a node or focal point.

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GIS - Global positioning system- a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.

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Globalization - actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something world wide in scope.

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GPS - a system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers. o Hearth (cultural) - the region from which innovative ideas originate.

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Hierarchical diffusion - the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.

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Latitude - the horizontal lines measuring north or south in degrees from and parallel to the equator. o Location - the position of anything on the Earth's surface.

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Longitude - the vertical lines (meridians) measuring distance east and west in degrees from the Prime Meridian.

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Map - a two dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.

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Mental map - a representation of a portion of the earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located. o Meridian - an arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.

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Parallel - a circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians. o Pattern - the geometric or regular arrangement of something in an area of study. o Place - a specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character....