Unit 1 Recap

Question 1

What is the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape?

Answer 1

Sequent Occupance

Question 2

What is the fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group?

Answer 2

Cultural Landscape

Question 3

What is the total number of people divided by the total land area?

Answer 3

Arithmetic Density

Question 4

What is the number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture?

Answer 4

Physiological Density

Question 5

What is the region from which innovative ideas originate?

Answer 5

Hearth

Question 6

What is the process of spread of a feature or trrend from one place to another

Answer 6

Diffusion

Question 7

What is the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another?

Answer 7

Relocation Diffusion

Question 8

What is the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process?

Answer 8

Expansion DIffusion

Question 9

What is the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places?

Answer 9

Hierarchical Diffusion

Question 10

What is the rapid widespread diffusion of a characterisitic throughout the population?

Answer 10

Contagious Diffusion

Question 11

What is the spread of an underlying principle, even though the characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse?

Answer 11

Stimulus Diffusion

Question 12

What is the exact measurement of physical space between two places?

Answer 12

Absolute distance

Question 13

What is the approximate distance of the physical space between two places?

Answer 13

Relative distance

Question 14

What is the arrangement of something across the Earth’s surface?

Answer 14

Distribution

Question 15

What is a 19th and early 20th century approach to study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in physical sciences and geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.

Answer 15

Environmental Determinism

Question 16

What is the position on earth’s surface using a coordinate system of latitude and longitude?

Answer 16

Absolute location

Question 17

What is the position on earth’s surface relative to other features?

Answer 17

Relative location

Question 18

What is the physical chracter of a place, what is found at the location and why it is significant?

Answer 18

Site

Question 19

What is the location of a place relative to other places?

Answer 19

Situation

Question 20

What is the reduction in tiem it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as result of improved communication and transportation systems?

Answer 20

Space-time compression

Question 21

What is based on the notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to overcome?

Answer 21

Friction of distance

Question 22

What is the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin?

Answer 22

Distance of Decay

Question 23

What was defined by Manuel Castells as a set of interconnected nodes without a center?

Answer 23

Networks

Question 24

What is the relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space?

Answer 24

Connectivity

Question 25

What is the degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations?

Answer 25

Accessibility

Question 26

What refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects?

Answer 26

Space

Question 27

What is the physical location of geographic phenomena across space?

Answer 27

Spatial distribution

Question 28

What is the estimatation of determination of extent

Answer 28

Size

Question 29

What is the representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generaliation?

Answer 29

Scale

Question 30

What is an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics?

Answer 30

Formal or Uniform Region

Question 31

What is an area organized around a node or focal point?

Answer 31

Functional or Nodal Region

Question 32

What is a place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity?

Answer 32

Vernacular of Perceptual Region

Question 33

What is the argument that the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the capability to adjust to their environment?

Answer 33

Possiblism

Question 34

What is a common property of distribuion in which there are geometric arrangments of space?

Answer 34

Pattern

Question 35

What is often referred to as a place's name?

Answer 35

Toponym