Geography 1100 Study Guide - Alluvial Fan, Cartogram, Crystal Growth

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Possibilism- physical environment is there to provide for people opportunities depending on their interests. Environmental determinism- physical enviro. models human behavior and conditions cultural development. Culture- environment-identified with population, cultural, political and behavioral geography. Scientific method - inductive and deductive +logical objective, reproducible, math precision. Inductive: experiences, unordered facts, definition-measurement, ordered facts, analysis, law & theories, explanation. Deductive: experiences, images, model, hypothesis, design, data, verification, law & theories (false? repeat) Formal region: physical and cultural features functional region: special, trade, network. Unit 3- universe: 74% dark energy, 22% dark matter, 3. 6% gas, 0. 4% stars. Map types: thematic, statistical, cartogram, dot, choropleth, isoline, mental. Remote sensing- spatial (size of pixels), spectral (# of wavelengths) Gis- input, data management, data manipulation, analysis functions, data output. Unit 4 location decision process characteristics of culture: people, scales, masses, groups, doesn"t exist in vacuum. Terrarian: scarplands, mountain pass, river valley, valley in plateau, land type transition, alpine valley slope.

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