Place key terms

Question 1

Place

Answer 1

a location with meaning - to individuals
and groups (personal meaning and
social/cultural meaning)

Question 2

Continuity

Answer 2

aspects that don’t change or change very
slowly within a place to link past, present
and future

Question 3

Qualitative data

Answer 3

information that is non-numerical and used
in an unstructured and open-ended way -
interviews, focus groups, artistic
depictions, photographs (may be coded
and then can be analysed in a quantitative
way)

Question 4

Coded data

Answer 4

qualitative data which is turned into
numerical data eg using a scale of 1-10 to
judge opinion

Question 5

Quantitative data

Answer 5

data that can be quantified and verified
and can be manipulated and analysed
statistically to extract meaning

Question 6

Insider

Answer 6

someone who knows a place very well
with a detailed knowledge and
understanding of that place. Shares
cultural norms with people

Question 7

Outsider

Answer 7

someone does not know a place well or
does not feel part of that community and
feels isolated by people that live there.

Question 8

Far place

Answer 8

a place that is distant physically or
significantly different so that it is socially or
culturally not in the experience of a person

Question 9

Near place

Answer 9

a place that is close by and/or one with

which there could be affinity

Question 10

Media places

Answer 10

a place that is known from only books,
films, music , TV and has never been visited

Question 11

Experienced place

Answer 11

a place that is known because someone is

a resident or visitor

Question 12

Endogenous factors

Answer 12

The characteristics of a place itself and
factors which have originated within the
place (internally) - location, physical
geography, land use, population, economy,
built environment

Question 13

Exogenous factors

Answer 13

The characteristics of a place based on
the relationship of this place with other
places and the external factors affecting
this such as flows of people, resources,
money and investment

Question 14

Location

Answer 14

where a place physically is on map or on
the ground eg it’s map coordinates

Question 15

Locale

Answer 15

the place where something happens or is
set or has particular events associated
with it

Question 16

Topography

Answer 16

the arrangement of the human and
physical features of an area

Question 17

Physical geography

Answer 17

the arrangement of the human and
physical features of an area

Question 18

Land use

Answer 18

the way land surfaces are used (and how
this changes over time) eg built upon, set
aside as parks, agricultural land, transport
links built over land etc

Question 19

Built environment

Answer 19

the human-made surroundings that
provide the setting for human activity &
daily life, ranging from buildings to parks

Question 20

Infastructure

Answer 20

the essential services to enable or
enhance living conditions such as
transport systems, communications, water
supply, sewers, energy supply, education
and health services, local government, law
enforcement and emergency services

Question 21

Demographic characteristics

Answer 21

the features of a population in a place
such as the age, gender, income,

Question 22

economic characteristics

Answer 22

the features of a place such as the
dominant industrial sector , employment
rates, types of local employment, the level
of business activity - usually described
through statistics and focused on money

Question 23

Local scale

Answer 23

detailed, small scale and focused on a

specific place

Question 24

Regional scale

Answer 24

an overview of places within a connected
area eg economically connected,
physically connected, politically connected
such as counties in the UK

Question 25

Global scale

Answer 25

operating worldwide and having
connecting effects around the world

Question 26

Social inequalitys

Answer 26

the existence of unequal opportunities and
rewards for different people and groups in
society when resources are distributed
unevenly

Question 27

Flows of people

Answer 27

the movement of people from place to
place for social, economic, political,
environmental reasons and which
operates at different scales and time
frames eg short-term migration,
emigration/immigration, commuting each
day, tourism

Question 28

Flows of resources

Answer 28

the movement of materials needed for
living from place to place eg movement of
coal from mining places to power
generation sites, movement of car parts
from manufacturers to assembly factories,
movement of crops from farms to shops

Question 29

Flow of investment

Answer 29

the movement of money that is going to be
used to create new resources and
businesses that will then generate
economic activity

Question 30

Flow of ideas

Answer 30

the movement of cultural ideas and norms
from place to place eg ideas of religion,
ideas of entertainment, ideas of health and welfare etc