pt.1

Question 1

What is human geography?

Answer 1

A branch of social studies that looks into how humans affect the region they live in

Question 2

What does a cartographer do?

Answer 2

They make/ draw maps for a living

Question 3

What is spatial perspective?

Answer 3

It shows where things happen in a more geographic approach and also explains why things happened where they happened

Question 4

What are spatial patterns?

Answer 4

The placement between objects and the space between them

Question 5

What is time-distance decay?

Answer 5

The decrease in activity between two objects depending on their distance from each other.
(the closer things are the more closely related)

Question 6

When we use the term “relative” (as in location, direction, etc.) what do we mean?

Answer 6

Relative is directions that are not exact but are around a certain area or in relation to it

Question 7

When we use the term “absolute” (as in location, direction, etc.) what do we mean?

Answer 7

Absolute in the exact location or direction of something. Exact as in coordinates or addresses

Question 8

What is map scale?

Answer 8

The ratio of a distance on a map to the distance on earth’s surface usually under the key on a map

Question 9

What do we use a reference map for?

Answer 9

You use a reference map for navigation or general knowledge of any location

Question 10

What does a thematic map show?

Answer 10

Thematic maps shows what the land is like

Question 11

Name 4 types of thematic maps and how they work.

Answer 11

Choropleth, Dot density, Proportional circle, and cartograms

Question 12

What are the 3 basic shapes that cartographers use for map projections?

Answer 12

Planar, Conical, Cylindrical

Question 13

Name 4 types of map projections and study their pros and cons.

Answer 13

4 types of map projections

Robinson:
Pro - most appealing
Con - everything is distorted

Peter’s:
Pro - land masses are equally sized
Con - lots of distortion in the polar regions

Goode homolosine:
Pro - all land is in the correct proportions
Con - awkwardly separates the oceans

Polar:
Pro - shows land from the polar perspectives
Con - doesn’t show land nearest the equator

Question 14

What does latitude measure?

Answer 14

Latitude measures North and South

Question 15

What does longitude measure?

Answer 15

Longitude measures East and West

Question 16

What is the Prime Meridian?

Answer 16

The Prime Meridian is the line in the middle of the earth going vertically. Could also be interpreted as the vertical Equator

Question 17

What is the Equator?

Answer 17

The equator is the horizontal line that separates the Northern and Southern hemisphere

Question 18

What is the difference between a meridian and a parallel?

Answer 18

Meridians run north and south (longitude) and parallels run east and west (latitude)

Question 19

Name three ways that geographers gather data.

Answer 19

Satellites, Surveys and fieldwork

Question 20

What is Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?

Answer 20

Gathers information that relates to a certain place on earth using other unrelated but available information

Question 21

What is space versus place?

Answer 21

Space is the area we take up as humans. Place is how we customize it or make that space our own

Question 22

What does cultural landscape mean?

Answer 22

Any area with a cultural significance like churches temples houses and farm fields

Question 23

What does time-space compression mean?

Answer 23

It’s the decrease in distance between two objects measured in travel time or cost often recognized by the phrase “the world is shrinking”

Question 24

Give an example of interdependence.

Answer 24

My friend needs someone to bake cookies for them; i need someone to bake cookies for

Question 25

What is diffusion?

Answer 25

The spread of an idea or characteristics

Question 26

What is cultural ecology?

Answer 26

The study of how humans adapt to their environment

Question 27

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 27

Different physical environments

Question 28

Name two natural hazards

Answer 28

Wildfires

Question 29

Name three natural resources

Answer 29

Food, gasses, and water

Question 30

Name two non-renewable resources

Answer 30

Coal and oils

Question 31

Name two renewable resources

Answer 31

Wood and food

Question 32

What is the Greenhouse effect?

Answer 32

The Greenhouse effect is the warming of the Earth due to pollution in the atmosphere that traps heat

Question 33

What is possibilism?

Answer 33

The belief that every environment offers a number of different ways for societies to develop and that humans can adapt to and overcome any physical or environmental challenges

Question 34

What is environmental determinism?

Answer 34

The belief that the physical environments can determine cultures and change how humans develop

Question 35

Give an example of global scale analysis.

Answer 35

A map with all of the continents showing all of their respective political boundaries

Question 36

Give an example of regional scale analysis.

Answer 36

A map showing just a single region within a continent or a few states

Question 37

Give an example of national scale analysis.

Answer 37

A map showing an entire nation/country or continent

Question 38

Give an example of local scale analysis.

Answer 38

A map showing within a certain community | can be more contextual

Question 39

What is a formal region? Give an example

Answer 39

A formal region has set and clear boundaries. (The European union)

Question 40

What is a functional/nodal region? Give an example

Answer 40

A functional region is based around a certain point and radiates outward from it. An example is a restaurant like Taco bell

Question 41

What is a perceptual/vernacular region? Give an example.

Answer 41

A perceptual region is an area that doesn’t have set boundaries and is based completely on where people think it starts and ends but they do exist so it is a region nonetheless