Aphug unit 1 vocab

Question 1

What is physical geography?

Answer 1

The study of the physical features of the land.

Question 2

What is human geography?

Answer 2

The study of the interactions of humans and the environment.

Question 3

What is spatial perspective?

Answer 3

Where something happens or looking at its patterns.

Question 4

What is ecological perspective?

Answer 4

The study of the relationships between living organisms and their environment.

Question 5

What is location?

Answer 5

Where something is.

Question 6

What is absolute location?

Answer 6

Location using latitude and longitude.

Question 7

What is relative location?

Answer 7

Location relative to other things.

Question 8

What is place?

Answer 8

An area of something.

Question 9

What are mental maps?

Answer 9

The way you visualize and remember a place.

Question 10

What is site?

Answer 10

The location and features around a place.

Question 11

What is situation?

Answer 11

The systems and networks that give advantages and disadvantages to a place.

Question 12

What is space?

Answer 12

Area between things on earth.

Question 13

What is distribution?

Answer 13

How things are spread out in a place.

Question 14

What is density?

Answer 14

How many things are in a certain area.

Question 15

What is pattern?

Answer 15

Repeated things that occur.

Question 16

What is flow?

Answer 16

The movement of ideas, traits, etc. that shapes and changes a place.

Question 17

What is distance decay?

Answer 17

The farther two places are, the less interaction.

Question 18

What is time-space compression?

Answer 18

Technology makes the world more connected and faster to travel.

Question 19

What is environmental determinism?

Answer 19

The idea that the environment limits and defines human activity.

Question 20

What is environmental possibilism?

Answer 20

The idea that we can use and modify the environment and shape it.

Question 21

What is sustainability?

Answer 21

Handling resources in a way that preserves them for the future.

Question 22

What is scale?

Answer 22

The relation between distance on a map and in real life.

Question 23

What is a region?

Answer 23

An area defined by similar characteristics.

Question 24

What is a formal region?

Answer 24

An area with at least one common characteristic throughout.

Question 25

What is a functional region?

Answer 25

An area around a central point of activity.

Question 26

What is a node?

Answer 26

A point of central activity.

Question 27

What are suburbs?

Answer 27

Areas with houses, yards, etc. between cities and rural areas.

Question 28

What is a perceptual/vernacular region?

Answer 28

A region defined by a person’s perception of it; no defined borders.

Question 29

What is globalization?

Answer 29

Ideas, traits, culture, etc. diffusing around the world.

Question 30

What is a theory?

Answer 30

An idea to explain something.

Question 31

What is world system theory?

Answer 31

An idea explaining the different stages of countries’ development in the world.

Question 32

What is the core?

Answer 32

Most developed, sophisticated, influential, wealthy.

Question 33

What is the periphery?

Answer 33

Least developed, exploited, poor.

Question 34

What is semi-periphery?

Answer 34

Somewhere in between periphery and core; traits of both.

Question 35

What is sustainable development?

Answer 35

Development that uses resources in a way that isn’t wasteful.

Question 36

What is quantitative?

Answer 36

Relating to the amount.

Question 37

What is qualitative?

Answer 37

Relating to the qualities.

Question 38

What is a census?

Answer 38

An organization that counts population every ten years.

Question 39

What is probeware?

Answer 39

Technology that uses sensors to get data like temperature, weather, etc. of a place.

Question 40

What is geography information systems (GIS)?

Answer 40

Systems that analyze and visualize geographic data.

Question 41

What is topography?

Answer 41

The layout of the land’s elevation.

Question 42

What is geovisualization?

Answer 42

Making geographic data into visual representation like maps, graphs.

Question 43

What is remote sensing?

Answer 43

Collecting data from afar without going there; satellites.

Question 44

What is global positioning systems (GPS)?

Answer 44

A system that shows the position of things on Earth.

Question 45

Who are cartographers?

Answer 45

People who make maps.

Question 46

What is absolute distance?

Answer 46

The exact distance in a measuring unit.

Question 47

What is relative distance?

Answer 47

Distance in relation to something else.

Question 48

What is absolute direction?

Answer 48

Cardinal directions on a compass.

Question 49

What is relative direction?

Answer 49

Relative to other things; near this, south of that, north of this, etc.

Question 50

What is map scale?

Answer 50

The ratio of distance on Earth to distance on a map.

Question 51

What are reference maps?

Answer 51

General maps focused on location; cities, highways, roads.

Question 52

What are thematic maps?

Answer 52

Maps with a specific topic/theme spatially showing relationships in data.