Chapter 1
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| show | Composed of nonliving or inorganic matter
🗑
|
||||
| Acculturation | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The price by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another more dominant group
🗑
|
||||
| Atmosphere | show 🗑
|
||||
| Behavioral geography | show 🗑
|
||||
| Biosphere | show 🗑
|
||||
| Biotic | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The science of making maps
🗑
|
||||
| show | Scientific research by amateur scientist
🗑
|
||||
| show | The long-term average weather condition at a particular location
🗑
|
||||
| Concentration | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space
🗑
|
||||
| Conservation | show 🗑
|
||||
| Contagious diffusion | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
🗑
|
||||
| show | An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area
🗑
|
||||
| Culture | show 🗑
|
||||
| Density | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
🗑
|
||||
| show | The diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
🗑
|
||||
| show | The arrangement of something across earth's surface
🗑
|
||||
| show | The scientific study of ecosystems
🗑
|
||||
| Ecosystem | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A nineteenth and twentieth century approach to the study of geography; argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in physical sciences Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities
🗑
|
||||
| Expansion diffusion | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics
🗑
|
||||
| Functional region (nodal region) | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The development and analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies
🗑
|
||||
| show | A computer system that stores, organizes, analysis, and displays geographic data
🗑
|
||||
| Geotagging | show 🗑
|
||||
| Global positioning system (GPS) | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
🗑
|
||||
| Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | show 🗑
|
||||
| Hearth | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places
🗑
|
||||
| show | The study of different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meanings
🗑
|
||||
| show | All of the water on and near Earth's surface
🗑
|
||||
| show | An arc that for the most part follows 180 longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. Moving east the clock moves back 24 hr. Moving west the clock moves forward 24 hr.
🗑
|
||||
| Latitude | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Earth's crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust
🗑
|
||||
| show | The position of anything on Earth's surface
🗑
|
||||
| show | The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian (0 degrees)
🗑
|
||||
| Map | show 🗑
|
||||
| Map scale | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A map that overlays data from one source on top of a map provided by a mapping service
🗑
|
||||
| Mental map | show 🗑
|
||||
| Meridian | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A chain of communication that connects places
🗑
|
||||
| show | Something produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans
🗑
|
||||
| Parallel | show 🗑
|
||||
| Participatory GIS (PGIS) | show 🗑
|
||||
| Pattern | show 🗑
|
||||
| Place | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Land that the Dutch have created by draining water from an area
🗑
|
||||
| Possibilism | show 🗑
|
||||
| Poststructuralist geography | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The maintenance of resources in their present condition, with as little human impact as possible
🗑
|
||||
| Prime meridian | show 🗑
|
||||
| Projection | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features
🗑
|
||||
| show | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
🗑
|
||||
| Remote sensing | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Something produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans
🗑
|
||||
| Resource | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Generally, the relationship between the portion of the Earth being studied and Earth as a whole
🗑
|
||||
| show | The physical character of a place
🗑
|
||||
| Situation | show 🗑
|
||||
| Space | show 🗑
|
||||
| Space-time compression | show 🗑
|
||||
| Spatial association | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected
🗑
|
||||
| show | The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future
🗑
|
||||
| show | The combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature
🗑
|
||||
| Toponym | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located
🗑
|
||||
| Uneven development | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | An area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity
🗑
|
||||
| Volunteered geographic information (VGI) | show 🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
Yedani
Popular AP Human Geography sets