AMSCO Unit 1 Chapter 2

Question 1

Spatial Approach

Answer 1

An approach that considers the arrangement of the phenomena being studies across the surface of the earth.

Question 2

The Spatial Approach focus on what 7 things?

Answer 2

Location, Distance, Direction, Orientation, Pattern, Flow, Interconnection

Question 3

Space

Answer 3

The area between 2 or more phenomena

Question 4

Location

Answer 4

Where specific phenomena are located either on a grid system or relative to another location

Question 5

Place

Answer 5

The specific human and physical characteristics of a location

Question 6

Two types of place

Answer 6

Site and Situation

Question 7

Site

Answer 7

the characteristics at the immediate location
Ex. soil types, climate, labor force

Question 8

Situation

Answer 8

The location of a place relative to its surroundings and it’s connectivity to another place

Question 9

Sense of place

Answer 9

state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character.

Question 10

Placelessness

Answer 10

A place that inspires no strong emotional ties in people or lacks uniqueness

Question 11

What are toponyms? How can they be uses”

Answer 11

Names for a designated place
They are used to inspire an ideal of a location, memorialize an event or person.
Ex. Mount Denali

Question 12

What is time-space compression?

Answer 12

The shrinking “time-distance” or relative distance, between locations because of improves methods of transportation and communication
Ex. Europeans music

Question 13

Spatial Interactions

Answer 13

The contact, movement, and flow of things between locations

Question 14

Flow

Answer 14

The patterns and movement of ideas, people, products, and other phenomena

Question 15

Distance Decay

Answer 15

The interaction between two places declines as the distance between the two places increase.

Question 16

Why is distance decay less influential than it once was? What “thing” has impacted this?

Answer 16

Accessibility and remoteness are changing. The Internet has impacted this.

Question 17

Patterns

Answer 17

The general arrangement of things being studies

Question 18

Human-environment interaction

Answer 18

The connection and exchange between humans and the natural world

Question 19

3 geographic concepts

Answer 19

Natural Resources, Sustainability, Land use

Question 20

What is a natural resource

Answer 20

An item that occurs in the natural environment that people can use
Ex. Wood, water, fish, soil, oil, minerals

Question 21

Renewable resource

Answer 21

theoretically are unlimited and will not be depleted based on human use
Ex. air, water, solar energy

Question 22

Non-renewable resource

Answer 22

are limited and can be exhausted
Ex. Soil, Fossil fuels, earth minerals

Question 23

Sustainability

Answer 23

use of resources now in ways that allow their use in the future while minimizing negative impacts on the environement

Question 24

Land Use

Answer 24

the study of how land is utilized, modified and organized by people

Question 25

Built Environment

Answer 25

The physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape, in their understanding of land use
Ex. buildings, road signs, fences

Question 26

Cultural Landscape

Answer 26

Anything built by humans and is in the realm of land use

Question 27

Cultural Ecology

Answer 27

The study of how humans adapt to the environment

Question 28

Environmental Determinism

Answer 28

The belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development while ignoring the influence of culture
Ex. Used to justify racism

Question 29

Possiblism

Answer 29

A view that acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays
Ex. Netherlands water management system

Question 30

Geographic Scale

Answer 30

sometimes called relative scale refers to the areas of the world being studied

Question 31

Scales of Analysis
Global
World Regional
National
National Regional
Local

Answer 31

G: the whole world
WR: multiple countries of the world
N: one country
NR: a portion of a country or a regions or regions in a country
L: a province, state, city, county, or neighborhood

Question 32

Aggregation

Answer 32

when geographers organize data into different scales such as by census tract, city, county, or country

Question 33

A world map with data aggregated by country can be used to show

Answer 33

Patterns

Question 34

The concept of scale analysis can also be used on

Answer 34

Charts, graphs, other

Question 35

To avoid a false conclusion use these questions

Answer 35

Is the conclusions supported by the scale of the data?
Is the scale of the conclusions appropriate for the scale of the data?
Is the data accurate and trustworthy?
Is there other data that could support or negate the conclusion?

Question 36

Regions

Answer 36

have boundaries, unifying characteristics, cover space, and are created by people

Question 37

3 types of regions

Answer 37

Formal, Functional, Perceptual

Question 38

Formal regions are untied by one or more traits

Answer 38

Political: Brazil in South America
Physical: The Sahara, a vast desert in northern Africa
Cultural: Southwestern Nigeria, an area where most people speak Yoruba
Economic: The Gold coast of Africa (Ghana) which exports gold

Question 39

Functional Region

Answer 39

Regions are organized around a focal point and are usually defined by activity, usually political, social, or economic, that occurs in the region
Ex. Airport is a node, and the locations that flights connect form a functional region

Question 40

Perceptual Regions

Answer 40

defined by the informal sense of place that people ascribe to them
Ex. The south

Question 41

Large world region

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Ex. Central America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Russian Federation

Question 42

Sub-regions

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Shares some characteristics with the rest of the larger region but is distinctive in some ways
Ex. Most people in Brazil are Roman-Catholics however Brazil’s primary language is Portuguese which makes it unlike any other country in the mostly Spanish speaking Latin America

Question 43

Regions are

Answer 43

generalizations