Unit 1

Question 1

What does human geography include?

Answer 1

Culture, political, population, urban, economic, agriculture.

Question 2

What are the five themes of geography?

Answer 2

Movement, Regions, Human Environmental Interaction, Place.

Question 3

What are the different types of location?

Answer 3

Absolute (longitude and latitude) and relative location (landmarks and proximity).

Question 4

What is the definition of place?

Answer 4

Distinctive physical and human characteristics of a place.

Question 5

What purposes do maps serve?

Answer 5

As a reference tool and as a communication tool.

Question 6

What are meridians?

Answer 6

Arcs drawn between the north and south poles. Measured in east and west, known as longitude.

Question 7

What is the main reference line of meridians?

Answer 7

The prime meridian.

Question 8

What are parallels?

Answer 8

Circles drawn parallel to the equator. Measured in north and south, known as latitude.

Question 9

What is the main reference line of parallels?

Answer 9

The Equator.

Question 10

What are the three types of map scale?

Answer 10

Ratio or fraction scale, written scale and graphic scale.

Question 11

Why is map distortion a thing?

Answer 11

The earth’s spherical shape causes problems when transferring it on a flat piece of paper.

Question 12

What are the four types of map distortion?

Answer 12

Shape, distance, relative size and direction.

Question 13

What are the different types of maps?

Answer 13

Isoline, choropleth, graduated symbols, dot, and cartogram map.

Question 14

What is GI Science?

Answer 14

Development and analysis of data about earth.

Question 15

What is GIS

Answer 15

A computer system that captures, stores, queries, analyzes, and displays geographic data.

Question 16

What is a map?

Answer 16

Used to convey information.

Question 17

What is a toponym?

Answer 17

A name given to a place on earth.

Question 18

How is location identified?

Answer 18

Place names (toponym), site, situation.

Question 19

What is a region?

Answer 19

An area on earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics.

Question 20

What are the three types of regions?

Answer 20

Formal, functional and perceptional regions.

Question 21

What is formal region?

Answer 21

An area in which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

Question 22

What is functional region?

Answer 22

An area organized around a node or focal point.

Question 23

What is perceptional region?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Why are different places similar?

Answer 24

Scale, space, and connection.

Question 25

What is globalization?

Answer 25

Force (process) involving the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.

Question 26

What are transnational corporations and what do they do?

Answer 26

They conduct research, operate factories and sell products in many countries all over the globe.

Question 27

What is globalization of culture?

Answer 27

Uniform culture preferences produce uniform cultural landscapes (ex. going to a McDonald's in a different country).

Question 28

What is density?

Answer 28

Frequency with which something occurs in space.

Question 29

What is concentration?

Answer 29

Extent of an item's spread over space (clustered and dispersed).

Question 30

What is pattern?

Answer 30

Geometric arrangement of items in space (straight roads and culdesacs).

Question 31

What is connection?

Answer 31

People, ideas, and objects move through diffusion.

Question 32

What is relocation diffusion?

Answer 32

Spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another (language/religion brought to a new location due to migration).

Question 33

What is expansion diffusion?

Answer 33

Spread of an item from one place to another in an "additive process" (Instagram Influencer, viral videos).

Question 34

What are some technological advances?

Answer 34

Trips that used to take weeks now take hours, electronic communication is practically instantaneous.