Chapter One geography

Question 0

What happened in settings?

Answer 0

important events happen, and it is from them that significant changes spread and diffuse.

Question 1

Why geography is important?

Answer 1

because specific places provide the settings for people’s daily lives

Question 2

What’s the relationship between places and region?

Answer 2

Interdependent

Question 3

Which two aspects are provided by scale?

Answer 3

Global and local.

Question 4

What relationship between nature culture and individual human activities?

Answer 4

Interrelated force

Question 5

What is the products of culture nature and individual human activities?

Answer 5

Place region special relationships

Question 6

One of the low of geography. What is one aspect of this low?

Answer 6

everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. Distance

Question 7

Why connectivity is important？

Answer 7

contact and interaction are dependent on channels of communication and transportation

Question 8

What r the 8 fundamental concept of geography

Answer 8

Scale place Location region space distance accessibility
special interaction

Question 9

What is region?

Answer 9

distinguished on the basis of specific characteristics, or attributes 标志

Question 10

What is the types of regions?

Answer 10

1. Formal region: “Uniform in terms of specified criteria.”
2. Functional region: “An area that literally functions as a unit, economically or administratively… usually organized by transport routes…”
3. Vernacular region: Local region as identified by the region’s own inhabitants.

Question 11

What is Regional Geography

Answer 11

combinations of environmental and human factors produce territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes.

Question 12

What are the type of distance

Answer 12

Absolute, relative, cognitive

Question 13

What is distance decay?

Answer 13

The declining density of pattern or process with increasing distance from the given location

Question 14

Space type?

Answer 14

•Absolute, relative, cognitive

Container or perceive

Question 15

What is Topological space?

Answer 15

the connections between, or connectivity of, particular points in space.”

Question 16

What are the two level of place ?

Answer 16

• 1) an objective location that has both uniqueness and interdependence with other places
• *2) a subjective social and cultural construct – somewhere that has personal meaning for individuals or groups.”

Question 17

Accessibility

Answer 17

•“The opportunity for contact or interaction from a given point or location in relation to other locations.”

Question 18

Spatial Interaction

Answer 18

Shorthand for all kinds of movement and flows involving human activity

Interdependence between place and regions can be sustain

Question 19

Diffusion

Answer 19

•“The way in which things spread through space over time.” (44). One of most important aspect of spatial interaction

Question 20

Scale

Answer 20

• The resolution levels used in any human geographic research;
• most characteristically refers to the size of the area studied,
• but also to the time period covered
• and the number of people investigated.

Question 21

What does map creat for?

Answer 21

Preserve 
•distance equidistant
•area. Equal area
•shape. conformal
•direction/angles. conformal