Unit One APHUG Quiz

Cultural landscape

A piece of land has different cultural characteristics

Distribution

Pattern of features

Environmental determinism

A physical land that sets social development

Environmental possibility

Sets limits for humans on land

GIS (Geographic Information System)

Analyze date from earth satellites

GPS (Global Positioning System)

gives precise location

Map scale

Large scale or small scale

Remote sensing

received from earth’s satellites orbiting planet

Formal (uniform region)

Area where everyone has shared characteristic

Functional (nodal)

Region surrounded my a node or focal point

Vernacular (perceptual) region

An area where people identify to be apart of their cultural identity