APHG Crossword
Across
- 5. Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas
- 6. Practice routinely followed by a group of people
- 7. The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction
- 8. barriers Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture
- 9. A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments (e.g., satellites) that are physically distant from the area or object of study
- 11. The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. This is anthropologist Ralph Linton's definition; hundreds of others exist
- 13. measurement of the physical space between two places
- 15. The art and science of making maps, including data compilation, layout, and design. Also concerned with the interpretation of mapped patterns
- 17. an outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide. (see also - endemic)
- 20. the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. The processes of globalization transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and scales
- 21. Maps that show the absolute location of places and geographic features determined by a frame of reference, typically latitude and longitude
- 24. the third theme of geography; an area on the Earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, functional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon
- 25. Affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture
Down
- 1. Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture
- 2. the fifth theme of geography; the mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet
- 3. Physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land
- 4. one of the major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes
- 10. A change in residence intended to be permanent. See also chain, forced, internal, international, step, and voluntary migration
- 12. The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source
- 14. the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact The processes of globalization transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and scales
- 16. People who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country
- 18. Movement among a definite set of places—often cyclic movement
- 19. The fourth theme of geography as defined by the Geography Educational National Implementation Project; uniqueness of a location
- 22. The area where an idea or cultural trait originates
- 23. A periodic and official count of a country's population