Quiz 1 - 3

Question 1

Vernacular Region

Answer 1

How people think about a region like the south.

Question 2

Toponym

Answer 2

the name of a place on earths surface.

Question 3

Hearths

Answer 3

collection of books and journals in economics.

Question 4

Hierarchical Diffusion

Answer 4

spread of a tradition from one key person to other people.

Question 5

Globalization

Answer 5

Change of culture and ideas.

Question 6

GPS

Answer 6

Satellite navigation system that gives location and time info in all weather conditions.

Question 7

GIS

Answer 7

System that captures, store, analyze, manage, and present all kinds of geographic data.

Question 8

friction of distance

Answer 8

as the distance from a point increases, the interactions with that point decreases.

Question 9

Time zones

Answer 9

A region where the standard times the same.

Question 10

Formal Region

Answer 10

A uniform area where they all share a common attribute like language, climate, or political system.

Question 11

Equator

Answer 11

A line that goes around the globe through the center.

Question 12

Environmental Determinism

Answer 12

The view that the physical environment sets limits on human environment.

Question 13

Distribution

Answer 13

the arrangement of something across earths surface.

Question 14

Distance Decay

Answer 14

the disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

Question 15

Diffusion

Answer 15

One of several transport phenomena that occur in nature.

Question 16

Density

Answer 16

How compact an object is.

Question 17

culture

Answer 17

Different ways people live their life.

Question 18

Cultural landscape

Answer 18

combined work of nature and land.

Question 19

Uneven Development

Answer 19

The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of globalization.

Question 20

Stimulus diffusion

Answer 20

A person gets a culture element from someone else but gives it in a different way or a characteristic is rejected.

Question 21

Site

Answer 21

Physical character of a place.

Question 22

Robinson Projection

Answer 22

a world map that solved the problem of showing the globe flat and instead showed it circular.

Question 23

Scale

Answer 23

tool that tells distance on a map.

Question 24

Remote Sensing

Answer 24

Data about earth surface from a satellite.

Question 25

Relocation Diffusion

Answer 25

Spread of a idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.

Question 26

Projection

Answer 26

The scientific method of transferring locations on earths surface to a flat map.

Question 27

Possibilism

Answer 27

The environment sets certain limits, and culture is determined by social conditions.

Question 28

Mercator Projection

Answer 28

Map projection by the cartographer Gerardus Mercator and was the standard because it represents lines of constant course.

Question 29

Lattitude and longitude

Answer 29

latitude-parallel lines that specify the north-south position of a point on Earths surface.
longitude-numbering system that tell the east-west position of a point Earths surface.

Question 30

Cartography

Answer 30

Production of maps

Question 31

Contagious Diffusion

Answer 31

Trait spreading across a region like a disease.

Question 32

Expansion Diffusion

Answer 32

Spread of an idea in a area in which it grows larger continuously.

Question 33

International Date line

Answer 33

Imaginary line that runs from the North pole to the South Pole.when you go to the east or west time moves back an hour or forward an hour.

Question 34

Functional Region

Answer 34

A place that relies on the core of the big city for the most part.

Question 35

Space-time compression

Answer 35

The reduction of time it takes to diffuse something to a place, as a result of improved transportation.

Question 36

Prime Meridian

Answer 36

A line of 0 degrees longitude and it divides the earth in half into the eastern and western hemispheres and passes through England.

Question 37

Cultural Ecology

Answer 37

The study of culture and physical environments.

Question 38

Situation

Answer 38

The location of a place relative to other places.

Question 39

Geography

Answer 39

The studies of lands, features, the people, and Earth features.

Question 40

Human Geography

Answer 40

The studies of the world, its people, communities and their culture, and relations of space and place.