1.1 Vocab

Question 1

Absolute Location

Answer 1

exact place on earth, often given in terms of latitude and longitude

Question 2

Administrative Region

Answer 2

the territorial units which a country is divided in

Question 3

Biome

Answer 3

a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat

Question 4

Cartography

Answer 4

a science or practice of drawing maps

Question 5

Choropleth

Answer 5

a symbol or marked and bounded area on a map denoting the distribution of some property

Question 6

Concentration

Answer 6

• The spread of objects in a given area

Question 7

Contagious Diffusion

Answer 7

the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

Question 8

Cultural Autonomy

Answer 8

• Cultures Develop Independently of their own environment.

Question 9

Cultural Ecology

Answer 9

The Study of Human Adaptations to social and physical environments

Question 10

Culture

Answer 10

• the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group

Question 11

Density

Answer 11

• The quantity of people or things in a given area of space.

Question 12

Distance-Decay

Answer 12

The tendency of a spatial relationship between one place and another to weaken as the distance between them increases

Question 13

Distribution

Answer 13

• The way something is spread-out or arranged over a geographic area.

Question 14

Dot-Distribution

Answer 14

• Maps that use dot symbols to show the presence or quantity of a phenomenon.

Question 15

Environmental Determinism

Answer 15

• A philosophy of geography that stated that human behaviors are a direct result of the surrounding environment.

Question 16

Equator

Answer 16

• An imaginary circle of latitude around the middle of the earth.

Question 17

Eratosthenes

Answer 17

• A Man who created the word geography, accepted the Earth is spherical, calculated its circumference, and created a map of the Earth dividing it into climatic regions

Question 18

Expansion Diffusion

Answer 18

• When innovations spread to new places while staying strong in their original locations.

Question 19

Functional Region

Answer 19

An area organized around a focal point or node.

Question 20

Diffusion

Answer 20

• The Act of Spreading Elements of culture to another region or people

Question 21

Formal Region

Answer 21

An area within which everyone shares distinctive characteristics