APHUG Vocabulary Omnibus: Chapter 1 Crossword
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
 
 
Down: 1) The fashioning of a natural landscape by cultural group.2) Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole. 3) Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area.4) The name given to a portion of Earth's surface.5) The relationship between the size of an object on the map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface. 6) The arrangement of something across Earth's surface. 8) The region from which innovative ideas originate. 9) A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians. 13) A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located. 14) A computer system that stores organizes analyzes and displays geographic data. 15) Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space. 18) A rapid increase in the value of houses followed by a sharp decline in their value. 21) The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area. 22) All the water on and near Earth's surface.23) A two-dimensional representation of Earth's surface, or a portion of it. 25) Something produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans. 26) The meridian that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England. 28) The physical gap or interval between two objects.30) The spread of something over a given area.31) A chain of communication that connects places. 32) 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.35) The maintenance of resources in their present condition, with as little human impact as possible. 37) The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future. 39) An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics. 41) The long-term average weather condition at a particular location.43) An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.44) The development and analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies. 45) The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian. 48) A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers. 49) The physical character of a place.50) An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features. Across: 7) A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships. 9) The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area. 10) The sustainable management of a natural resource.11) A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic.12) An area organized around a node or focal point. 16) An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. 17) The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator. 19) Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. 20) The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. 24) An arc that for the most part follows 180 degreed longitude.27) The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. 29) The spread of an underlying principle even through a specific characteristic is rejected. 33) An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area. 34) The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems36) The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. 38) The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy. 40) Earth's crust and a part of the upper mantle directly below the crust. 42) The time in the zone encompassing the prime meridian.46) Something produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans. 47) The position of anything on Earth's surface.51) A system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map. 52) Composed of nonliving or inorganic matter.53) A 19th and early-20th century approach to the study of geography which argues that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences (geography therefore was the study of how the physical environment caused human activities)54) Composed of living organisms.55) The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process. 56) The location of a place relative to another place. 57) The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another58) The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. 59) The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from other long-distance methods. 60) A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.
 

 

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