Across
- 2. a thematic map with continuous lines joining points of the same value
- 4. the number of persons per unit of land suitable for agriculture
- 5. a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
- 7. the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process
- 8. contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears
- 9. a system that accurately determines the precise position of something on Earth
- 11. the arrangement of a feature in space
- 13. the reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place
- 14. an arc drawnbetween the North and South poles
- 19. exact position of an object or place relative to a grid system
- 23. rectangular-shaped maps with little shape and direction distortion, but a lot of size distortion
- 25. the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places
- 26. the parallel with the largest circumference and the place with 12 hours of daylight (0 degrees latitude)
- 27. the meridian that is 0 degrees longitude
- 34. distance A distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length, such as a mile or kilometer.
- 35. the location of a place relative to other places
- 38. an area organized around a node or central point
- 39. a feeling for the features that contribute to the distinctiveness of a particular spot on Earth
- 41. the name given to a place on Earth
- 44. provide a specific meaning for a word or concept.
- 45. depending on the scale, different spatial assumptions can be made
- 46. a thematic map using shading to show a pattern of a variable (the darker the shading, the higher the concentration of the variable)
- 47. refers to the relationship of a feature's size on a map compared to its actual size on Earth
- 49. indicate or provide information about a specific topic without elaboration or explanation
- 50. created the word geography, accepted the Earth is sperical, calculated its circumference, and created a map of the Earth dividing it into climatic regions
- 51. central, wealthy, technologically advanced countries vs. less-developed, poor, and dependant countries
- 53. a numbering system used to locate each meridian on Earth's surface
- 54. the number of farmers per unit of farmland
- 56. an ancient Greek who wrote Guide to Geography and made many maps
- 57. relative to a fixed frame of reference and always point in the same direction, regardless of their location (north, south, east west)
- 58. the numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel
- 61. the master reference time for all points on Earth; the time at the prime meridian
- 63. the study of where and why human activities are located where they are
- 65. theory that the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment
- 66. lets us find unfamiliar locations by comparing them to familiar ones
- 67. the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
- 68. divided the West into townships and ranges to help with the buying and selling of land
- 69. the total number of objects in an area
Down
- 1. an internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface
- 3. the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map
- 4. the north-south lines seperating townships
- 6. everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than far things
- 10. the physical character of a place
- 12. Provide a description or explanation of similarities and/or differences
- 15. a line following the 180 degree latitude line where when you cross it going west, you set the clock forward by 24 hours
- 16. maps that are useful for displaying information across the oceans, but land areas are smaller than on interrupted maps of the same size
- 17. provide the relevant characteristics of a specified topic
- 18. forms superimposed on the physical environment by humans
- 20. a place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
- 21. the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
- 22. the science of map-making
- 24. an area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of physical and cultural traits
- 28. the process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time
- 29. the extent of a feature's spread over space
- 30. relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space
- 31. the geographic study of human-environment relationships
- 32. the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or other long-distance methods
- 33. map help people find and identify physical and/or political features
- 36. the geometric arrangement of objects in space
- 37. the theory that the physical environment causes social development
- 40. shows how a particular feature is distributed over an area
- 42. a two-dimensional or flat-scale model of Earth's surface, or a portion of it
- 43. help people find and identify physical and/or political features
- 48. the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse
- 52. an area within which everyone shares in a common one or more distinctive characteristics
- 55. the position that something occupies on Earth's surface
- 59. a computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data
- 60. the frequency with which something occurs in space
- 62. provide information about how or why a relationship, process, pattern, position, or outcome occurs, using evidence and/or reasoning
- 64. the place from which an innovation originates