Student ___________________
APHG
September 2014
Miss Canone
Vocabulary List #1
Unit 1: Thinking Geographically (Rubenstein: Chapter 1)
Directions: Define and provide an example of each of the following terms.
Definitions can be taken from the textbook or class notes. Due __________.
1.
2.
3.
4.
cartography
projection
distortion
GIS (geographic
information system)
5. remote sensing
6. GPS (global positioning
system)
7. toponym
8. site
9. situation
10. place
11. region
12. absolute or
mathematical location
13. cultural landscape
(built environment)
14. formal region
15. functional region
16. vernacular region
17. mental map
18. cultural ecology
19. environmental
determinism
20. possibilism
21. polder
22. scale
23. globalization
24. density
25. space-time
compression
26. distance decay
27. friction of distance
28. hearth
29. relocation diffusion
30. expansion diffusion
31. hierarchical diffusion
32. contagious diffusion
33. stimulus diffusion
34. sense of place
35. placelessness
36. thematic maps
37. Peter’s projection
38. Robinson projection
39. Mercator projection
Key People:
1.
Carl Sauer
a. What did he contribute to the field of geography?
2. Jared Diamond
a. Which geographical approach does he follow?
b. Thesis?
3. Eratosthenes
a. Contribution?