EXAM 1

Question 1

What is the word geography based off of?

Answer 1

“Earth” and “to write”

Question 2

Geographers explain…

Answer 2

Where and why

Question 3

Who invented the word geography?

Answer 3

Eratosthenes

Question 4

What are geographer’s tools for thinking spatially about the distribution of Earth’s features?

Answer 4

A map

Question 5

What is a geographers most important tool?

Answer 5

A map

Question 6

What is a place?

Answer 6

A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic

Question 7

Every ___ occupies a unique location, or position, on Earth’s surface

Answer 7

Place

Question 8

What is a region?

Answer 8

An area of Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics

Question 9

Geographers are increasingly concerned with the…

Answer 9

Global scale

Question 10

What is space?

Answer 10

The physical gap or interval between two objects

Question 11

Geographers observe that many objects are distributed across…

Answer 11

Space in a regular manner for discernible reasons

Question 12

Who calculated the circumference of the Earth around 200 B.C.?

Answer 12

Eratosthenes

Question 13

Who described the known world of A.D. 1 in a 17-volume work?

Answer 13

Strabo

Question 14

Whose maps of the known world were used for 1,000 years?

Answer 14

Ptolemy

Question 15

Who created the first modern Atlas?

Answer 15

Abraham Ortelius

Question 16

Who divided the Earth into 5 climatic regions?

Answer 16

Eratosthenes

Question 17

Who mapped the Roman Empire around A.D. 150?

Answer 17

Ptolemy

Question 18

What is a “sense of place”?

Answer 18

A feeling for a particular spot on Earth – perhaps a hometown, vacation destination, or college

Question 19

What is a toponym?

Answer 19

The name given to a place on Earth

Question 20

How does site identify a place?

Answer 20

Physical characteristics

Question 21

How does situation identify a place?

Answer 21

The location relative to other places

Question 22

What is a formal region?

Answer 22

An area within which most people share 1 or more distinctive characteristics

Question 23

Examples of a formal region

Answer 23

Montana and North American wheat belt

Question 24

What is a functional region?

Answer 24

A region is an area organized around a node or focal point

Question 25

What is a main use for functional regions?

Answer 25

To display information about economic areas

Question 26

What is a vernacular region?

Answer 26

An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity

Question 27

What is a perceptual region based on a person's mental map?

Answer 27

Vernacular

Question 28

4 examples of a functional region

Answer 28

The circulation of a newspaper, the area of dominance of a television station, the market area of a grocery store, and the area dominated by a particular crop

Question 29

Why is the State of Texas best considered a formal region?

Answer 29

The same State laws apply everywhere in the region

Question 30

What is globalization?

Answer 30

It refers to actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope

Question 31

What is a hearth?

Answer 31

An innovation originating at a node

Question 32

What is diffusion?

Answer 32

The process of spreading an innovation, feature, or trend from one place to another over time

Question 33

What is relocation diffusion?

Answer 33

When people move they take their culture with them, including language, religion, & ethnicity

Question 34

The diffusion process associated with the physical movement of people

Answer 34

Relocation

Question 35

What is hierarchical diffusion?

Answer 35

The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places

Question 36

Which diffusion may result from the spread of ideas from political leaders, socially elite people, or other important persons to others in the community?

Answer 36

Hierarchical diffusion

Question 37

What is contagious diffusion?

Answer 37

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

Question 38

What is a form of expansion diffusion?

Answer 38

Hierarchical, contagious, and stimulus diffusion

Question 39

To geographers, the spread of McDonald’s around the world represents

Answer 39

Globalization

Question 40

What exemplifies the globalization of culture?

Answer 40

Wearing jeans & Nike shoes

Question 41

What is a resource?

Answer 41

A substance in the environment that is useful to people, economically & technologically feasible to access, & socially acceptable to use

Question 42

What is sustainability?

Answer 42

The use of Earth’s resources in ways that ensure their availability in the future

Question 43

What is cultural ecology?

Answer 43

The geographic study of human-environment relationships

Question 44

According to environmental determinism...

Answer 44

The physical environment caused social development

Question 45

What is possibilism?

Answer 45

The concept that the physical environment may limit some human actions but that people have the ability to adjust to their environment

Question 46

How does possibilism work?

Answer 46

People can choose a course of action from many alternatives in the physical environment

Question 47

How have the Dutch modified their environment?

Answer 47

Constructing dikes & polders

Question 48

Why do you think the government & people of the Netherlands are concerned about climate change?

Answer 48

A rise in sea level could threaten their dike systems & could cause a significant loss of land & developed infrastructure

Question 49

What river is an important source of water for California?

Answer 49

Colorado river