Unit 1

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Across
  1. 1. rectangular-shaped maps with little shape and direction distortion, but a lot of size distortion
  2. 5. the name given to a place on Earth
  3. 7. the location of a place relative to other places
  4. 8. a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
  5. 9. a numbering system used to locate each meridian on Earth's surface
  6. 10. ease to reach a place
  7. 11. mapmaking
  8. 13. theory that the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment
  9. 14. the parallel with the largest circumference and the place with 12 hours of daylight (0 degrees latitude)
  10. 17. the physical character of a place
  11. 18. the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or other long-distance methods
  12. 20. the arrangement of a feature in space
  13. 22. the reduction in time it takes for something to reach another place
  14. 23. process at which a characteristic spreads from one place to another
  15. 28. contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears
  16. 30. number of objects in an area
  17. 32. the study of where and why human activities are located where they are
  18. 33. forms made on the environment by humans
  19. 37. shows how a particular feature is distributed over an area
  20. 38. an area within which everyone shares in a common one or more distinctive characteristics
  21. 39. a line following the 180 degree latitude line where when you cross it going west, you set the clock forward by 24 hours
Down
  1. 2. lets us find unfamiliar locations by comparing them to familiar ones
  2. 3. the theory that the physical environment causes social development
  3. 4. rapid widepsread diffusion
  4. 6. an area organized around a node or central point
  5. 12. farmers per unit of farmland
  6. 15. the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse
  7. 16. a computer system that can capture, store, query, analyze, and display geographic data
  8. 18. maps that are useful for displaying information across the oceans, but land areas are smaller than on interrupted maps of the same size
  9. 19. thematic map that uses shading
  10. 21. a thematic map with continuous lines joining points of the same value
  11. 24. the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places
  12. 25. frequency that something occurs in a space
  13. 26. the pread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process
  14. 27. a place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
  15. 29. coordinates
  16. 31. a system that accurately determines the precise position of something on Earth
  17. 34. the numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel
  18. 35. the scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map
  19. 36. the place from which an innovation originates