Chapter 1

Question 1

Observing people, what they’re doing, they’re actions, and develop maps

Answer 1

Geographic Fieldwork

Question 2

Highlights position of people and things affect what happens and why

Answer 2

Location

Question 3

Interactions between people and the physical world

Answer 3

Human Environment

Question 4

Similarities can be dependent on specific places

Answer 4

Region

Question 5

All places have unique physical characteristics

Answer 5

Place

Question 6

Refers to mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet

Answer 6

Movement

Question 7

Visible imprint of human activity on the landscape

Answer 7

Culture Landscape

Question 8

The art and science of making maps

Answer 8

Cartography

Question 9

Tells stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon

Answer 9

Thematic Maps

Question 10

Describes location of a place in relation to other human and physical features, change over time

Answer 10

Relative Location

Question 11

Shows a persons activity space - Places we know

Answer 11

Mental Map

Question 12

Gathers data at a distance from Earths surface, collected by satellites and aircraft

Answer 12

Remote Sensing

Question 13

Compares a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations of the environment, can help monitor natural disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, also used to analyze data

Answer 13

Geographic Information Systems

Question 14

An emerging research field concerned with studying geospatial concepts and techniques

Answer 14

G.I.S.ci

Question 15

Distance on a map compared to distance on earth, and spatial extent of something

Answer 15

Scale

Question 16

Marked by homogeneity in one or more circumstance. Has a shared trait, cultural or physical.

Answer 16

Formal Region

Question 17

Defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. Boundaries are in which the location ends.

Answer 17

Functional Region

Question 18

Ever changing by society and events. Not static, and can be difficult to find or understand.

Answer 18

Perceptual Region

Question 19

Something associated with the culture

Answer 19

Cultural Trait

Question 20

Where cultural traits develop

Answer 20

Cultural Hearth

Question 21

When ideas, people, or goods move across space, this process of dissemination is called blank.

Answer 21

Cultural Diffusion

Question 22

Time/Distance in diffusion process

Answer 22

Time Distance Decay

Question 23

Can stop spread of ideas or innovations

Answer 23

Culture Barriers

Question 24

Rapid spread in a culture trait

Answer 24

Expansion Diffusion

Question 25

A form of expansion diffusion in which nearly all adjacent individuals and places are affected.

Answer 25

Contagious Diffusion

Question 26

A pattern in which the main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused

Answer 26

Hierarchical Diffusion

Question 27

Vague, unattainable, different, impracticable, yet effective and impactful

Answer 27

Stimulus Diffusion

Question 28

When migrants move from their land they take their traits with them (carry ideas to a new location)

Answer 28

Relocation Diffusion

Question 29

Natural environment merely serves to limit the range of choices available to a culture

Answer 29

Possibility

Question 30

An area of inquiry concerned with culture as a system of adaptation to and alteration of environment

Answer 30

Culture Ecology

Question 31

Area of inquiry fundamentally concerned with the environmental consequences of dominate political economic arrangements

Answer 31

Political Ecology

Question 32

Informational, shows boundaries and place names.

Answer 32

Reference Maps

Question 33

Type of map. Examples include subway system maps, theme park maps, map of mall.

Answer 33

Topographical

Question 34

Uses colors or shading to represent quantifiable data. (Usually shows density, but not distribution)

Answer 34

Choropleth Map

Question 35

Places a dot representing a value in its approximate location. (very good to show distribution)

Answer 35

Dot Map

Question 36

Feature symbols proportional in size to the actual value of the data. (Sometimes too cluttered)

Answer 36

Graduated Symbol Maps

Question 37

Connect areas of equal value with lines (looks like a fingerprint often) Used for weather maps but can be difficult to interpret unless colors are used.

Answer 37

Isoline Map

Question 38

Distorts the appearance of places on the map to represent their value. China and India on a map of world population would be larger than all other countries.

Answer 38

Cartogram Map

Question 39

Takes the spherical shape of the Earth and displays it on a flat surface.

Answer 39

Map Projection

Question 40

Preserved shapes of land features at the expense of distorting their true size.

Answer 40

Conformal Projection

Question 41

Distorts the oceans to preserve size of landmasses.

Answer 41

Equal-Area Projection

Question 42

Latitude and Longitude shown at right angles, preserves shape but distorts size massively at higher latitudes, commonly used for navigation.

Answer 42

Mercator Projection

Question 43

Preserved size but distorts shape, image appears opposite of Mercator.

Answer 43

Gall Peters Projection

Question 44

Preserved size and shape of continents but distorts polar areas, compromise projection often used in published atlases.

Answer 44

Robinson Projection

Question 45

Interrupted projection removes much of the oceans to preserve size and shape of land masses, often used for thematic maps.

Answer 45

Goodes Projection

Question 46

Characteristics that don’t change like latitude and longitude.

Answer 46

Absolute Location

Question 47

Where a place is in relation to somewhere else.

Answer 47

Relative Location

Question 48

How different places interact with each other. Could be information, people, or goods from one place to another.

Answer 48

Flows

Question 49

The farther away one place is from another the less interaction those 2 places will have. Less severe today due to technology like airplanes and internet.

Answer 49

Distance Decay

Question 50

The reduction of time it takes for something to get from one place to another.

Answer 50

Time Spaced Compression

Question 51

How are objects arranged in space?

Answer 51

Pattern