Across
- 2. the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or other long-distance methods
- 6. place with 12 hours of daylight (0 degrees latitude)
- 8. a system that accurately determines the precise position of something on Earth
- 10. what is the theory that the physical environment causes social development?
- 13. the numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel
- 16. a computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data
- 17. the frequency with which something occurs in space
- 18. a numbering system used to locate each meridian on Earth's surface
- 20. the physical character of a place
- 22. the location of a place relative to other places
- 23. the place from which an innovation originates
- 27. the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
- 28. the meridian that is 0 degrees longitude
- 29. theory that the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment
- 30. a line following the 180 degree latitude line where when you cross it going west, you set the clock forward by 24 hours
- 31. the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places
Down
- 1. rectangular-shaped maps with little shape and direction distortion, but a lot of size distortion
- 3. what is the geographic study of human-environment relationships?
- 4. occurs when people move from their original location to another and bring their innovations with them.
- 5. the science of map-making
- 7. an area organized around a node or central point
- 9. the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse
- 10. the pread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process
- 11. an area within which everyone shares in a common one or more distinctive characteristics
- 12. maps that are useful for displaying information across the oceans, but land areas are smaller than on interrupted maps of the same size
- 14. the process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time
- 15. the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole
- 19. the arrangement of a feature in space
- 21. An area that people believe exist as part of their cultural identity.
- 24. a way of looking at how phenomena and features are laid out on the earth's surface
- 25. the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map
- 26. contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears
