Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Question 0

Arithmetic density-

Answer 0

The total number of people divided by the total land area.

Question 1

Agricultural density-

Answer 1

The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.

Question 2

Base line-

Answer 2

An east to west line designated under the land ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the surveying and numbering if townships in the US.

Question 3

Cartography-

Answer 3

The science of making maps.

Question 4

Concentration-

Answer 4

The spread of something over a given area.

Question 5

Connections-

Answer 5

Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.

Question 6

Contagious diffusion-

Answer 6

The rapid widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

Question 7

Cultural ecology-

Answer 7

Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.

Question 8

Cultural landscape-

Answer 8

Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.

Question 9

Culture-

Answer 9

The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a groups distinct tradition.

Question 10

Density-

Answer 10

The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.

Question 11

Diffusion-

Answer 11

The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.

Question 12

Distance decay-

Answer 12

The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

Question 13

Distribution-

Answer 13

The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface.

Question 14

Environmental determinism-

Answer 14

A nineteenth- and early twentieth- century approach to the study of geography which argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.

Question 15

Expansion diffusion-

Answer 15

The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.

Question 16

Formal region (uniform region)-

Answer 16

An area in which everyone shares in one or more characteristics.

Question 17

Functional region (nodal region)-

Answer 17

An area organized around a node or focal point.

Question 18

Geographic information system (GIS)-

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Global Positioning System (GPS)-

Answer 19

A system that determines the precise position of something on earth through. Series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.

Question 20

Globalization-

Answer 20

Actions it processes that involve the entire world the result in making something worldwide in scope.

Question 21

Greenwich mean time-

Answer 21

The time in that zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude.

Question 22

Hearth-

Answer 22

The region from which innovative ideas originate.

Question 23

Hierarchical diffusion-

Answer 23

The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.

Question 24

International date line-

Answer 24

An arc that for the most part follows 180 degrees longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the international date line heading east towards America, the clock moves back 24 hours. When you move west towards asian the calendar moves up a day.