Geography

Question 1

Location

Answer 1

Where are you? two ways to know location.

• absolute
  
  • based on longitude and latitude
• relative
  
  • based on what is around you.

Question 2

Longitude

Answer 2

Vertical lines across globe. The prime meridian is a line of longitude

Question 3

Latitude

Answer 3

Horizontal lines that go across the globe. The equator is a line of latitude.

Question 4

Place

Answer 4

What a place is LIKE - characteristics
- Land, shape, plants, animals, climate.
- language, clothes, buildings, music, industry, etc.
most common characteristic is the toponym
- toponym
- site
- situation

Question 5

Toponym

Answer 5

Name given to a place in earth

Question 6

Site

Answer 6

Physical characteristics and location of a place

Ex: climate, water, vegetation, etc.

Question 7

Situation

Answer 7

Location relative to other places

Question 8

Region

Answer 8

Areas that share common characteristics

• physical(climate, landscape, etc)
• human traits (language, religion, political boundaries , etc. )
• cultural landscape
• formal region / uniform region/ homogeneous region
• functional (nodal) region
• vernacular/ perceptual region

Question 9

Cultural landscape

Answer 9

Combination of cultural features (language, region, etc. )

Question 10

Formal region/ uniform region/ homogeneous region

Answer 10

An area within which everyone shares a common one or more distinctive characteristics. Has clear boundaries.

Question 11

Functional(nodal) region

Answer 11

Are organized around a focal point

- diminishes outward.

Question 12

Vernacular/ perceptual region

Answer 12

Based on cultural identity

- stereotypes

Question 13

Human- environment interaction

Answer 13

• How humans change/ modify the environment
• how the environment influences it limits the people who live there.
• Environmental determination
• possibilism

Question 14

Environmental determination

Answer 14

Physical/ environment causes social environment - need a stable environment for human life.

Question 15

Possibilism

Answer 15

Environment may limit some human actions, but humans can adjust the environment
- ex: in the Netherlands, there was a lot of water and flooding. In result, the Dutch made dukes and polders.

Question 16

Dike

Answer 16

Man made structure to hold back water

Question 17

Polder

Answer 17

Land creatures by draining water

Question 18

Movement

Answer 18

Spread of ideas and people. Interaction

• travel
• communication
• trade
• immigration/ emigration

Question 19

Trade

Answer 19

Exchanging resources

Question 20

Immigration

Answer 20

Movement IN to an area/ region.

Question 21

Observation

Answer 21

What you see

Question 22

Inference

Answer 22

Intelligent guess

Question 23

Geography

Answer 23

Study of physical features of earth