Exam 1

Question 1

Mental Maps

Answer 1

Maps of an area made from memory or experience by individuals or groups (also known as cognitive maps).

Question 2

Thematic Maps

Answer 2

A map that tells a story, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon using map symbols.

Question 3

Cartography

Answer 3

Art and science of map making

Question 4

Cultural Landscape

Answer 4

Visible human imprint on the landscape

Question 5

Relocation Diffusion

Answer 5

When an idea is shared and leaves its hearth (place of origin) through movement

Question 6

Expansion Diffusion

Answer 6

When an idea is shared and spreads out beyond its hearth (place of origin)

Question 7

Diffusion

Answer 7

When an idea is shared and spread from its hearth

Question 8

Movement

Answer 8

Mobility of people, culture, or goods

Question 9

Vernacular

Answer 9

Language used in everyday speech among people in a local area

Question 10

Perceptual Regions

Answer 10

Area of land that an individual perceives as being familiar

Question 11

Node

Answer 11

Connection point in a network

Question 12

Functional Region

Answer 12

A region that serves a particular purpose in society

Question 13

Formal Region

Answer 13

Region that share one or more physical or cultural aspects

Question 14

Political ecology

Answer 14

Study of how people interact with their environment in the context of political, economic, and historical

Question 15

Cultural ecology

Answer 15

Study of historical interactions with the environment, how humans modified and adapted to their environment

Question 16

Carrying capacity

Answer 16

Idea that land can hold a measurable amount of plant and animal life

Question 17

Possiblism

Answer 17

Theory that humans, not the environment, shape culture

Question 18

Environmental Determinism

Answer 18

Idea that human behavior is determined by the physical environment

Question 19

Location theory

Answer 19

Understanding the distribution of cities, services, industries, or consumers

Question 20

Relative location

Answer 20

Location of a place in relation to another place

Question 21

Absolute location

Answer 21

Location of a place measured by longitude and latitude

Question 22

Location

Answer 22

Geographical position of people and things

Question 23

Physical geography

Answer 23

Study of spatial and material characteristics of the physical environment

Question 24

Cultural geography

Answer 24

How culture, ethnicity, language are distributed and affect human geography

Question 25

Human geography

Answer 25

How we organize ourselves and our activities in space