Chapter 1

Question 1

Result of human modifications to physical geography

Answer 1

Landscape

Question 2

A localized area displaying homogeneity

Answer 2

Region

Question 3

An area where something specific is situated

Answer 3

Location

Question 4

Becoming more connected to the rest of the world

Answer 4

Globalization

Question 5

“Interrelationships that connect individuals of a culture”

Answer 5

Society

Question 6

Population and life expectancy increase; birth and death decline

Answer 6

Modernization

Question 7

First society to have literary and mathematical descriptions of the world (ex. Aristotle)

Answer 7

Greece

Question 8

“Father of Geography” (273-192 BCE), wrote a book describing the entire known world

Answer 8

Eratosthenes

Question 9

After the discovery that the Earth is round, this man made a grid of longitudes and latitudes

Answer 9

Hipparchus

Question 10

Created a map using 8000+ locations from Hipparchus’s grids

Answer 10

Ptolemy

Question 11

The idea that the world was created by God

Answer 11

Teleology

Question 12

A symbolic map showing Asia, Europe, and Africa in a T shape

Answer 12

T-O Map

Question 13

A map that uses lines that one could place a compass on

Answer 13

Portolano Map

Question 14

(1254-1323 CE) visited China and wrote about it

Answer 14

Marco Polo

Question 15

Traditional Geography

China - humans are _____ of nature
Europe - humans are _____ to nature

Answer 15

China - humans are part of nature

Europe - humans are separate to nature

Question 16

(1512-1594 CE) made maps of the round world on a flat surface

Answer 16

Gerardus Mercator

Question 17

(1622-1650 CE) wrote Geographia Generalis, and defined the word “geography” as needing both detailed descriptions of a place and universal generalizations

Answer 17

Bernhardus Varenius

Question 18

(1724-1804) said there is a need to classify facts in their “spatial context”

Answer 18

Immanuel Kant

Question 19

(1775-1826 CE) described all of the known world including places, plants, animals, cultures, languages, etc.

Answer 19

Conrad Malte-Brun

Question 20

Wrote Cosmos and Die Erdkunde respectively. Believed that human geography and physical geography should be combined

Answer 20

Alexander Von Humboldt and Carl Ritter

Question 21

(1833-1905 CE) founded “chorology” or regional studies

Answer 21

Ferdinand Von Ricthofen

Question 22

Focused on “anthropogeography” (human geography) and the “influence of physical geography on humans”

Answer 22

Friedrich Ratzel

Question 23

Created “géographie Vidalienne”, a school of geography focussing on human made landscapes

Answer 23

Paul Vidal de la Blache

Question 24

(1861-1947 CE) British man who said geography and history are related

Answer 24

Hanford J Mackinder

Question 25

(1850-1935 CE) American who said “physical geography influenced human landscapes” aka physiography

Answer 25

William Morris Davis

Question 26

(1863-1932 CE) American similar to Ratzel -physical geography influences humans

Answer 26

Ellen Churchill Semple

Question 27

Four Principles of Human Geography

Answer 27

1. Physical Geography as a Cause (disproven)
2. Relationship with Humans and Land
3. Regional Studies
4. Spatial Analysis

Question 28

Human activity is determined by choices made by humans

Answer 28

Possibilism

Question 29

Regional studies

Answer 29

Chorology

Question 30

A “synonym for regional geography”

Answer 30

Areal Differentiation

Question 31

“Explaining the location of geographic facts” a 1953 paper by F.W. Schaefer

Answer 31

Spatial Analysis

Question 32

Study of “the human way of life, cultural regions, and relationships between humans and physical landscapes”

Answer 32

Human Geography