Unit 1: 1.1

Question 1

Tobler’s first law

Answer 1

The first law indicates that although all things on Earth are related the closer two things are the more relation there is
Examples: The closer pages in a book are the more they carry correspondence

Question 2

Concentration

Answer 2

Concentration is how close something or someone is in a certain are or space
Examples: each desk is around 3 inches apart ( C = closeness )

Question 3

Built Environment

Answer 3

Something that is created and then executed on the Earth’s surface
Example: My home is a built environment

Question 4

Physical Geography

Answer 4

Physical geography’s the evaluation of natural processes and characteristics of the environment
Example: landforms, plants, animals, and climate

Question 5

Human Geography

Answer 5

The study of occurrences that impact the way humans understand
Examples: The way humans evolve socially, politically, and economically

Question 6

Spatial perspective

Answer 6

This refers to the place in which something happens. Where things are located, why the happen to be
Examples: I’m in school, because I am legally required to be

Question 7

Ecologically Perspective

Answer 7

These are the relationships between the living things and the environments they live in
Examples: Plants interact with the sun by turning it into every ( ECOsystem = ECOlogical )

Question 8

Location

Answer 8

The place that an item belongs/ space taken up on earth
Examples: My house’s location is in Plainfield

Question 9

Absolute Location

Answer 9

The exact place in which and object “lives” Often in coordinates / addresses
Examples: Hungary is located at 47.50N, 19.04E ( never changes )

Question 10

Relative Location

Answer 10

This is when a something’s location is describes by what is around it
Examples: Batman’s relative location is to the right of the Flash

Question 11

Place

Answer 11

This is similar but different from location. A place is a destination on earth that can be differentiated by it’s human characteristics E.g. climate, landforms, soils, waters, languages, religion, political, and economic systems etc.

Question 12

Mental Map

Answer 12

These are when you frequent a place enough that you began to imagine it’s route. You could probably draw a fairly accurate map from memory E.g. of town, neighborhood, or school
Examples: I go to Six Flags so much that I can imagine my way around

Question 13

Site

Answer 13

This refers to the physical characteristics as well as the absolute location AKA place + absolute location
Example: The site of Barcelona is located on a plain with Besoms river to the North and Llobregat river to the south

Question 14

Situation

Answer 14

This refers to the place location in relation to others ( relative location )
Examples: Barcelona is a port city on the Mediterranean Sea, which historically controlled the Western portion

Question 15

Space

Answer 15

Although with multiple definitions, space means the amount of available territory between two or more objects
Examples: There is a lot of space between my bed and door

Question 16

Distributed

Answer 16

To arrange things within a given space
Examples: I can see how posters are evenly distributed on the wall

Question 17

Density

Answer 17

This is the amount of something in a given area
Examples: Density = Digits

Question 18

Pattern

Answer 18

How things may be arranged in a specific shape. This is also a factor of distribution
Examples: The amount of fast food establishments in a town

Question 19

Flow

Answer 19

The flow of something, whether people, goods, or information it is it’s movement
Examples: Information In the town travels within hours

Question 20

Environmental Determinism

Answer 20

This is the theory that the environment around humans directly effects their behaviors
Examples: Bears hibernate as a reaction to their environment

Question 21

Possiblism

Answer 21

This states that humans have the ability to adapt to their environments. The ecosystems only provides opportunity, it’s the organism’s job to take it
Examples: Plants grow in different directions in order to obtain sunlight as successfully as possible

Question 22

Sustainability

Answer 22

Sustainability is like an investment in the future. It means to use the Earth’s natural material in a way that promises it’ll be available in the future
Examples: Being aware whether the item you are using is renewable or non-renewable

Question 23

Distance Decay

Answer 23

This principle says that the farther two things are from each other the less they interact vice versa
Examples: When my friend moved away we didn’t keep in contact as much ( higher # of interaction –> lower # of distance )

Question 24

Friction of distance

Answer 24

This says time (t), effort (e), and currency (c) must be put in, in order to overcome distances.
Examples: It took 18 hours (t) to arrive in Ghana, cost $2,000 (c), and we had to make sure we didn’t miss our flight (e)

Question 25

Time space compression

Answer 25

This is similar to friction of distance, it describes the transformation that makes distance between A & B shrink
Example: 1830: 15 days from New York –> Europe and Today: 7.5 hours from New York –> Europe