Unit 1

Question 1

/Toponymn

Answer 1

The name given to a place on earth

Question 2

level of aggregation

Answer 2

the level of which things are grouped/clustered together

Question 3

political regions

Answer 3

groups of places based on similar cultural, historical, economic, and historical characteristics.

Question 4

bio region

Answer 4

a region whose limits are naturally defined by topographic and biological features

Question 5

ecotone

Answer 5

areas of steep transition between ecological communities, ecosystems, and/or ecological regions along an environmental or other gradient. marshlands (between dry and wet ecosystems), mangrove forests (between terrestrial and marine ecosystems), grasslands (between desert and forest), and estuaries (between saltwater and freshwater)

Question 6

Royal Naval Observatory

Answer 6

the historic source of the Prime Meridian of the world, Longitude 0° 0’ 0’’. located in Greenwich london

Question 7

Toblers law

Answer 7

The first law of geography was developed by Waldo Tobler in 1970 and it makes the observation that ‘everything is usually related to all else but those which are near to each other are more related when compared to those that are further away

Question 8

Friction of distance

Answer 8

movement incurs some form of cost, in the form of physical effort, energy, time, and/or the expenditure of other resources, and that these costs are proportional to the distance traveled.

Question 9

central place theory

Answer 9

Central-place theory attempts to illustrate how settlements locate in relation to one another, the amount of market area a central place can control, and why some central places function as hamlets, villages, towns, or cities. (hexagons with colored dots) Developed 1930s German Walter Christaller

Question 10

agglomeration

Answer 10

when a number of firms producing similar or complementary goods locate near one another, which, in turn, produces positive externalities for those firms (lots of automobile retail next to each other)

Question 11

arithmetic density

Answer 11

people per unit of land

Question 12

agricultural density

Answer 12

people per unit of arable land

Question 13

physiologic density

Answer 13

farmers per unit of arable land

Question 14

conformal profections

Answer 14

directions, shapes, and angles are maintained

Question 15

Goode Homolosine projection

Answer 15

orange peel

Question 16

bid rent curve/theory

Answer 16

Land closest to CBD is most expensive. From middle outwards it is predicted retail(closest to CBD/in it, manufaturing, and the residential farthest away

Question 17

distance decay

Answer 17

The distance decay effect states that the interaction between two locales declines as the distance between them increases.