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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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1
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What is an absolute location?

A

Exact coordinates

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What is expansion diffusion?

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The spread of an idea through a population that keeps growing larger

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What is relocation diffusion?

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Ideas are spread as people move and migrate

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What is a thematic map?

A

Tell stories about geographic phenomenon

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What is a relative location?

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In ration to or around something

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What is a reference map?

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Show absolute locations and geographic features. Latitude and longitude

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What is a mental map?

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A image of a space from an individual’s perception

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What is the prime meridian?

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Goes up and down 0° longitude

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What is the equator?

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Runs west to east 0° lattitude

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Meridians vs. parallels

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Meridians divide west to eas

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What is remote sensing?

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A method of collecting data through instruments that are different from the area or object of study

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What is a GIS?

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Computer hardest that permits spatial data to be collected recorded stored retrieved manipulated analyzed and displayed to the other user

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What is sense of place?

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Feeling and emporium from a certain place labeling with chat yer

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What are the 5 themes of geography?

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Location
Human environment
Region
Place 
Movement
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15
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What is location?

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Position of things on earth

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What is human environment?

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Relationship between humans and the environment

17
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What is region

A

Unevenly distributed large areas on earth

18
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What is place?

A

Meaning of a place

19
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What is movement?

A

Mobility of people and expression of interconnections of places

20
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What are types of regions?

A

Formal region
Functional region
Perceptual regions

21
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What is a formal region?

A

Shared trait cultral or physical (French speaking)

22
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What is a functional region?

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A set of activities that occur (political social and economic)

23
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What is a perceptual region?

A

Constructs that help us and understand nature and distribution of phenomena in human geography?

24
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What is a cultral hearth?

A

Source of a major culture

25
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What is a cultural landscape?

A

Visible imprint of human activity and culture landscape

26
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Who is Thomas Malthus?

A

He wrote a paper about his predictions on population growth with food supply

27
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What is a GPS

A

Locates things on the surface of earth with accuracy

28
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What is the census?

A

A count of a countries population

29
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What is globalization?

A

Processes increasing interactions seeping relationships and heightening independence without u country borders

30
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What is spatial?

A

Pertains to space in earths surface used as a synonym for graphic

31
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What is endemic?

A

A spread over a small area

32
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What is an epidemic?

A

Spread through a large areas

33
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What is a pandemics?

A

Spread globally

34
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What is cartography?

A

The art of making maps

35
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What is geocaching?

A

A scavenger hunt using a gps

36
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What is human geography ?

A

The spatial analysis of human population it’s cultures activities and landscapes

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