Human Geography 2

• Less Developed Countries
• include sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America

The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.

• Land created by the Dutch
• by draining water from an area

a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time

an infection of the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are watery diarrhea and vomiting

notion that successful societies leave their cultural imprints on a place each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape

present, appearing, or found everywhere

Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole; specifically, the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth’s surface

Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.

An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles

a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569

The acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods.

The physical character of a place

• More Developed Countries
• include countries in North America, Europe, and Japan

a professor of geography at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies on climatic determinism, economic growth andeconomic geography

widely used system that classifies climatic regimes according to:annual and monthly averages of temperatureannual and monthly averages of precipitationdevised by Waldimir Koppen (1846-1940)

an epidemic ofinfectious disease that has spread through human populations across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide

(of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area

Location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region

created in 1984 by the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers to facilitate and organize the teaching of geography in the K-12 classroom

a treasure hunting game where you use a GPS to hide and seek containers with other participants in the activity

a map in which some thematic mapping variable – such as travel time, population, or Gross National Product – is substituted for land area or distance