chapter 1 vocab
Across
- 1. fourth theme of geography as defined by the Geography Educational National Implementation Project; uniqueness of a location.
- 3. throughout a wide geographic area; worldwide
- 5. to space on the Earth's surface; sometimes used as a synonym for geographic.
- 7. third theme of Geography as defined by the GENIP; an area on the Earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, funtional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon.
- 8. landscape\the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape
- 10. situation of person or thing
- 16. making or study of maps or charts.
- 19. of place\state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character.
- 20. act of changing the location of something
- 21. occupation\the notion that succedsive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place each contributing to the cumulative cultural land scape
- 22. widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
- 23. property created by the space between two objects or points
- 25. geography\the study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective. Among other things, looks at sources, diffusion routes, and distributions of diseases.
Down
- 2. second theme of geography as defined by the GENIP; reciprocal relationship between humans and environment.
- 4. themes\Developed by the Geographic Educational National Implemention Project (GENIP) the _____ ______ of geography are location, human-environment, region, place, and movement.
- 6. trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world.
- 9. study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places
- 10. overall appearance of an area. Most _______ are comprised of a combination of natural and human-induced influences.
- 11. degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certian location from other locations. ________ varies from place to place and can be measured.
- 12. geography\concentrates on patterns of human activity and on their relationships with the environment.
- 13. degree of direct linkage between one particular location and other locations in a transport network
- 14. of spatial distribution
- 15. of place\The term for when people develop ideas about areas they have never been, usually through books, movies, stories, or pictures.
- 17. geography\the study of physical features of the earth's surface
- 18. theory\a logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of economic activities & the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated
- 24. interaction\the movement of people, goods and ideas within and across geographic space