chapter 1 vocab
Across
- 3. The term for when people develop ideas about areas they have never been, usually through books, movies, stories, or pictures.
- 5. The fourth theme of geography as defined by the Geography Educational National Implementation Project; uniqueness of a location.
- 6. physical location of geographic phenomena across space.
- 8. Developed by the Geographic Educational National Implemention Project (GENIP) the _____ ______ of geography are location, human-environment, region, place, and movement.
- 9. the act of changing the location of something
- 12. 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.
- 16. The second theme of geography as defined by the GENIP; reciprocal relationship between humans and environment.
- 18. the study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places
- 19. The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world.
Down
- 1. observing variations in geographic phenomena across space
- 2. the movement of people, goods and ideas within and across geographic space
- 4. a logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of economic activities & the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated
- 5. design of spatial distribution
- 7. pertaining to space on the Earth's surface; sometimes used as a synonym for geographic.
- 10. The 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.
- 11. the property created by the space between two objects or points
- 13. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
- 14. spread throughout a wide geographic area; worldwide
- 15. concentrates on patterns of human activity and on their relationships with the environment.
- 17. geographical situation of person or thing