Chapter 1 test

Question 1

Mental Map

Answer 1

A personal visualization of spatial information

Question 2

Activity Space

Answer 2

The local areas within which people move or travel during the course of their daily activities; individual routine

Question 3

Cartography

Answer 3

The science of mapmaking

Question 4

Map

Answer 4

A two dimensional or flat-scale model of Earth’s surface, or a portion of it

Question 5

Absolute location

Answer 5

The exact point of latitude and longitude intersection

Question 6

Relative location

Answer 6

Distance and direction from another location

Question 7

Map purpose 1

Answer 7

As a reference tool to identify absolute/relative location

Question 8

Map purpose 2

Answer 8

As a communications tool to convey the distribution of human activities or physical features

Question 9

How did maps progress throughout the ages?

Answer 9

Early maps were used as a reference tool to get to show travelers how to get to point a to b. Improvements were later made due to advancements in cartography.(Primarily made outside of Europe by Chinese/Islamic world.)

Question 10

How are mental maps used in human geography?

Answer 10

Mental maps are used in geography to find our way from point a to b, organizing/storing info for future reference, and a way to make meaning

Question 11

Map scale

Answer 11

Level of detail and the amount of area covered on the map

Question 12

Projection

Answer 12

Scientific method of transferring locations on Earth’s surface to a flat map

Question 13

Meridian

Answer 13

Lines running from pole to pole that connect points with the same longitude

Question 14

Parallel

Answer 14

Lines of constant latitude that run east-west as circles parallel to the equator

Question 15

Geographic grid

Answer 15

A system of imaginary areas drawn in a grid pattern on Earths surface. Allows us to pinpoint absolute location using lat/long

Question 16

Latitude

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A geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on Earths surface

Question 17

Longitude

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A geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on Earths surface

Question 18

Prime meridian

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The zero of longitude

Question 19

The four major lines of Lat/long

Answer 19

Tropic of cancer 23 degrees 26’(23.43 degrees)N/Tropic of Capricorn 23 degrees 26’(23.43 degrees)S/Arctic Circle 66° 34′ (66.57°) N/Antarctic Circle 66° 34′ (66.57°) S

Question 20

Time zone

Answer 20

A region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purpose

Question 21

Daylight Savings Time

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Usually used in countries with higher latitude and temperature zones by adjusting the clock by an hour

Question 22

UTC

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Regulates clocks and time, within about a second (0 mean solar time) longitude; it does not observe daylight savings time. (Stands for Universal coordinated time)

Question 23

Standard deviation

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A plus or minus on hour to every 15 degrees your time zone is located

Question 24

GMT

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The mean solar time, located 0 degrees longitude at the prime meridian

Question 25

How do geographers calculate standard deviation?

Answer 25

By using your location on a map and adding/subtracting an hour every 15 degrees your country it located

Question 26

Human Geography

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The branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place. Human geography attends to human patterns of social interaction, as well as spatial level interdependencies, and how they influence or affect the earth's environment.

Question 27

Geography

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A field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth and planets.

Question 28

Physical Geography

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The branch of natural science which deals with the study of processes and patterns in the natural environment like the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere

Question 29

Physical map

Answer 29

Focuses on the physical features of the place. Identifies/list many of distinguishable physical features of the place you can

Question 30

Political map

Answer 30

Shows the spatial organization of the place. Identifies/list the number of organized spaces in the place.

Question 31

Thematic map

Answer 31

Tells the story of the place

Question 32

Toponym

Answer 32

The name of a place

Question 33

Place

Answer 33

Refers to a physical and human aspects of a location

Question 34

Location

Answer 34

A particular place or position

Question 35

Site

Answer 35

The description of the features of a place

Question 36

Situation

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The environmental conditions of a place

Question 37

3 ways geographers describe location, toponym, site, and situation

Answer 37

Relative location relation to other things around it

Question 38

Region

Answer 38

An area on the planet that is composed of places with a unifying characteristic

Question 39

Formal region

Answer 39

A region whose boundaries are formally defined

Question 40

Functional region

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Usually encompasses a central point with defined boundaries and the area around it that is connected via a well developed network of transportation and communication systems that facilitates that movement of people, goods, and ideas within that system.

Question 41

Cultural diffusion

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The process of spreading cultural traits from one region to another

Question 42

Relocation diffusion

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An idea or innovation that migrates into new areas, leaving behind its origin or source of the cultural trait.

Question 43

Expansion diffusion

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An innovation or idea that develops in a source area and remains strong there, while also spreading outward to other areas.

Question 44

Hierarchical diffusion

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An idea or innovation that spreads by moving from larger to smaller places often with little regard to the distance between places, and often influenced by social elites.

Question 45

Contagious diffusion

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An idea or innovation that spreads based on person-to-person contact within a given population.

Question 46

Stimulus diffusion

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An idea or innovation that spreads based on its attachment to another concept.

Question 47

Columbian Exchange

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The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, west Africa, and the Old World. The most immediate impact was the cultural changes and the transfer of people(free and enslaved) between continents.

Question 48

The five themes of geography

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Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region.

Question 49

Vernacular region

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The sense of a place; how the people see it

Question 50

Globalization

Answer 50

The process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.

Question 51

What are some facilitators of globalization

Answer 51

With the increased global connections comes the growth of international trade, ideas, and culture sharing. Globalization is primarily an economic process of interaction and integration that's associated with social and cultural aspects.