First Quiz Chapter 1 and 2

Question 1

Things such as cities near each other are more closely related than things that are further apart.

Answer 1

Time-distance decay

Question 2

The general arrangement of things

Answer 2

Spatial patterns

Question 3

A quantitative and spatial mix. It has a geographic location component or it such as a country, city, zip code, latitude, longitude, or address and is often used with geographic information systems

Answer 3

Geospatial data

Question 4

Named because they are designed for people to refer to general information about places.

Answer 4

Reference maps

Question 5

SHow and label human-created boundaries and designations, such as countries, states, capitals,and cities

Answer 5

Political Maps

Question 6

Show and label natural features such as mountains, rivers, and deserts

Answer 6

Physical Maps

Question 7

Show and label highways, streets, and alleys

Answer 7

Road maps

Question 8

show and label property lines and details of land ownership

Answer 8

Plat maps

Question 9

Show spatial aspects of information or of a phenomenon

Answer 9

Thematic Maps

Question 10

Use various colors, shades of one color, or patterns to show the location and distribution of spatial data

Answer 10

Choropleth Maps

Question 11

Used to show specific location and distribution of something across the map. Each dot represents a specified quantity.

Answer 11

Dot- distribution maps

Question 12

Uses symbols of different sizes to indicate more of something. Larger sizes indicate more of something, and smaller sizes indicate less of something

Answer 12

Graduated Symbol maps

Question 13

Use lines that connect points of equal value to depict variations in the data across space.

Answer 13

Isoline maps

Question 14

The size of countries are shown according to some specific statistics. Any variable for which these are statistics can be substitute for the size of the country and mapped the same way

Answer 14

Cartogram

Question 15

Roughly follows this line but makes deviations to accommodates international boundaries.

Answer 15

International date line

Question 16

How well two locations are tied together by roads or other links

Answer 16

Connectivity

Question 17

How quickly and easily people in one location can interact with people in another location

Answer 17

Accessibility

Question 18

arranged in a group or concentrated area.

Answer 18

Clustered distribution

Question 19

arranged in a straight line

Answer 19

linear distribution

Question 20

spread out over a large area

Answer 20

dispersed distribution

Question 21

regular arrangement such as squares

Answer 21

geometric dstribution

Question 22

equally special from a central point

Answer 22

circular distribution

Question 23

no order to their position

Answer 23

random distribution

Question 24

used to refer to the act of physically visiting a location

Answer 24

Field Observation

Question 25

all information that can be tied to specific locations

Answer 25

spatial data

Question 26

information from satellites that orbit the earth

Answer 26

Remote sensing

Question 27

images captured by planes within the atmosphere

Answer 27

aerial photography

Question 28

recording the information on location, or in the field

Answer 28

field work

Question 29

allow people to zoom in or out to see the data in ways that were previously impossible

Answer 29

Geo visualizations

Question 30

Computer systems that can store, analyzed display information from multiple digital maps or geospatial data sets

Answer 30

GIS- Geographic information systems

Question 31

increase the likelihood of success because they create buy-in from local residents are more likely to be culturally accepted

Answer 31

community-based solutions

Question 32

Considers the arrangement of the phenomena being studied across the surface of the earth.

Answer 32

Spatial approach

Question 33

Shrinking “time distance”, or related distance, between locations because of improved methods of transportation and communication

Answer 33

Time-space compression

Question 34

Connection between places is reflected in the growth of spatial interaction

Answer 34

spatial interaction

Question 35

Indicates that when things are farther apart, they tend to be less connected

Answer 35

Friction of Distance

Question 36

The belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development while ignoring the influence of cultures

Answer 36

Environmental determinism

Question 36

the physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape, in their understanding of land use

Answer 36

Built environment

Question 37

A view that ackoowledged limits on the effects of the natural environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays

Answer 37

Possibilism

Question 38

sometimes called uniform regions, or homogeneous regions, are united by one or more traits

Answer 38

Formal regions

Question 38

Organized around a focal point and are defined by an activity, usually political, social, or economic, that occurs across the regions

Answer 38

Functional regions

Question 39

Defined by the informal sense of place that people ascribe to them.

Answer 39

Perceptual regions