How to geographers describe where things are

Question 1

Time Zones

Answer 1

a range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.

Question 2

GMT

Answer 2

Greenwich Mean Time

Question 3

UTC

Answer 3

Coordinated Universal Time

Question 4

Day light Saving

Answer 4

is the practice of turning the clock ahead as warmer weather approaches and back as it becomes colder again so that people will have one more hour of daylight in the afternoon and evening during the warmer season of the year

Question 5

standard deviation

Answer 5

a quantity calculated to indicate the extent of deviation for a group as a whole.

Question 6

Mental Maps

Answer 6

is a person’s point-of-view perception of their area of interaction

Question 7

Geographic grid

Answer 7

based on or derived from the physical features of an area.

Question 8

Region

Answer 8

an area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.

Question 9

formal region

Answer 9

is an area inhabited by people who have one or more characteristics in common

Question 10

functional region

Answer 10

are made up of a central place and surrounding areas affected by it

Question 11

vernacular region

Answer 11

is the sense of place that is revealed in ordinary people’s language.

Question 12

place

Answer 12

a particular position or point in space.

Question 13

location

Answer 13

a particular place or position.

Question 14

toponym

Answer 14

a place name, especially one derived from a topographical feature.

Question 15

Site

Answer 15

an area of ground on which a town, building, or monument is constructed.

Question 16

situation

Answer 16

the location and surroundings of a place.

Question 17

latitude

Answer 17

the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth’s equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.

Question 18

Longitude

Answer 18

the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.

Question 19

Parallels

Answer 19

each of the imaginary parallel circles of constant latitude on the earth’s surface.

Question 20

Meridians

Answer 20

a circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth’s surface and the terrestrial poles.

Question 21

Globalization

Answer 21

the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Question 22

Factors of Globalization

Answer 22

Money, resources, market, technologies, political and production issue