AP Hug Week 3 Vocab Quiz

2D or 3D interactive maps that allow people to zoom in or out to see data in ways that was previously impossible

• Geovisualization
• Geographic Information System (GIS)
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Remote sensing

Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features.

• Geovisualization
• Geographic Information System (GIS)
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Remote sensing

A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study, such as satelites

• Remote sensing
• Geographic Information System (GIS)
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Geovisualization

A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data.

• Remote sensing
• Geographic Information System (GIS)
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Geovisualization

An action, policy, program or law that is driven by the community members, and that affects local factors that can influence the lives of those in the community (can be lead by government or non-government organizations (NGOs))

• cultural landscape
• cultural ecology
• environmental possibilism
• Community-based solutions

The process of describing and interpreting the landscape ecology of an area.

• landscape analysis
• field observations
• fieldwork
• aerial photography

the act of physically visiting a location, place, or region and recording, firsthand, information there

• landscape analysis
• field observations
• fieldwork
• aerial photography

Identifies the geographic location of features and boundaries on Earth, such as natural or constructed features, oceans, and more

• landscape analysis
• field observations
• fieldwork
• spatial data

Taking images of the earth from elevated positions as a means of gathering geographic data

• landscape analysis
• field observations
• fieldwork
• aerial photography

the study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places

• landscape analysis
• fieldwork
• aerial photography
• spatial data