Chapter 1

Question 1

What is an absolute location?

Answer 1

Exact coordinates

Question 2

What is expansion diffusion?

Answer 2

The spread of an idea through a population that keeps growing larger

Question 3

What is relocation diffusion?

Answer 3

Ideas are spread as people move and migrate

Question 4

What is a thematic map?

Answer 4

Tell stories about geographic phenomenon

Question 5

What is a relative location?

Answer 5

In ration to or around something

Question 6

What is a reference map?

Answer 6

Show absolute locations and geographic features. Latitude and longitude

Question 7

What is a mental map?

Answer 7

A image of a space from an individual’s perception

Question 8

What is the prime meridian?

Answer 8

Goes up and down 0° longitude

Question 9

What is the equator?

Answer 9

Runs west to east 0° lattitude

Question 10

Meridians vs. parallels

Answer 10

Meridians divide west to eas

Question 11

What is remote sensing?

Answer 11

A method of collecting data through instruments that are different from the area or object of study

Question 12

What is a GIS?

Answer 12

Computer hardest that permits spatial data to be collected recorded stored retrieved manipulated analyzed and displayed to the other user

Question 13

What is sense of place?

Answer 13

Feeling and emporium from a certain place labeling with chat yer

Question 14

What are the 5 themes of geography?

Answer 14

Location
Human environment
Region
Place 
Movement

Question 15

What is location?

Answer 15

Position of things on earth

Question 16

What is human environment?

Answer 16

Relationship between humans and the environment

Question 17

What is region

Answer 17

Unevenly distributed large areas on earth

Question 18

What is place?

Answer 18

Meaning of a place

Question 19

What is movement?

Answer 19

Mobility of people and expression of interconnections of places

Question 20

What are types of regions?

Answer 20

Formal region
Functional region
Perceptual regions

Question 21

What is a formal region?

Answer 21

Shared trait cultral or physical (French speaking)

Question 22

What is a functional region?

Answer 22

A set of activities that occur (political social and economic)

Question 23

What is a perceptual region?

Answer 23

Constructs that help us and understand nature and distribution of phenomena in human geography?

Question 24

What is a cultral hearth?

Answer 24

Source of a major culture

Question 25

What is a cultural landscape?

Answer 25

Visible imprint of human activity and culture landscape

Question 26

Who is Thomas Malthus?

Answer 26

He wrote a paper about his predictions on population growth with food supply

Question 27

What is a GPS

Answer 27

Locates things on the surface of earth with accuracy

Question 28

What is the census?

Answer 28

A count of a countries population

Question 29

What is globalization?

Answer 29

Processes increasing interactions seeping relationships and heightening independence without u country borders

Question 30

What is spatial?

Answer 30

Pertains to space in earths surface used as a synonym for graphic

Question 31

What is endemic?

Answer 31

A spread over a small area

Question 32

What is an epidemic?

Answer 32

Spread through a large areas

Question 33

What is a pandemics?

Answer 33

Spread globally

Question 34

What is cartography?

Answer 34

The art of making maps

Question 35

What is geocaching?

Answer 35

A scavenger hunt using a gps

Question 36

What is human geography ?

Answer 36

The spatial analysis of human population it's cultures activities and landscapes