Chapter 2 vocab 1

Question 1

Spatial perspective

Answer 1

The process in which geographers look at, try to explain, and predict the human physical patterns in space and the connections of different places.

Question 2

Geographic models

Answer 2

A model that is simplified of what exists or might exist in the future on earth. It helps a geographer answer the who, what, when, and why patterns exist on earth as they do.

Question 3

Physical geography

Answer 3

Geography concerned with the earth’s natural phenomena like soil.

Question 4

Human geography

Answer 4

Geography concerned with he analysis of human creatures and their interactions with earth

Question 5

Absolute location

Answer 5

Position of an object on the global grid;latitude and longitude

Question 6

Lines of latitude (parallels)

Answer 6

Degrees north to south from the equator (0* latitude) that never intersects

Question 7

Line of longitude (meridians)

Answer 7

Measured in degrees east to west starting at the prime meridian. It runs through England. It represents 0* longitude.

Question 8

Greenwich mean time (GMT) or universal time

Answer 8

Baseline for time zones starting at the prime meridian.

Question 9

Relative location

Answer 9

Location of sometime described by things surrounding it.

Question 10

Site

Answer 10

Internal physical and cultural characteristics of a place, such as its terrain and dominant regions, among others.

Question 11

Situation

Answer 11

Location (or context) of a place relative to the physical and cultural characteristics around it. The more interconnected a place is to other powerful places, the better its situation.

Question 12

Human-environment interaction/cultural ecology

Answer 12

One theme of geography through which geographers analyze humans’ impact on their environment and their environment’s impact on them.

Question 13

Region

Answer 13

Theme in geography involving a spatial unit that has many places sharing similar characteristics.

Question 14

Formal region

Answer 14

Region composed of areas that have common or inform cultural or physical feature; sometimes referred to as uniform regions.

Question 15

Functional region

Answer 15

Group of place slimmed together by some function’s influence on them after diffusing from a central node; sometimes referred to as nodal region.

Question 16

Perceptional region

Answer 16

Region whose boundaries are determined by people’s beliefs, not a scientifically measurable process.

Question 17

Place

Answer 17

Theme in geography that involves the unique combination of physical and cultural attributes that give each location in the earth an individual “stamp”.

Question 18

Sense of place

Answer 18

Person’s perception of human and physical attributes of a location that gives it a unique identity in a person’s mind.

Question 19

Movement

Answer 19

Theme in geography involving the movement occurring in a space: movement of information, people, goods, and other phenomena.

Question 20

Distance decay

Answer 20

Pattern in which the interaction between two places declines as the distance between the two places increases.