unit 1 Flashcards
What are the two types of location?
Absolute location - exact and precise
Relative location - relative area and not exact
What is a place?
A unique characteristic that distinguishes one place from another.
What are the three types of human interaction with the environment?
Using environment - cutting down trees for wood
Adapting - getting used to the cold weather
Modifying - cutting down trees for more space to add houses
What does movement refer to in geography?
How goods and people trade/are moved.
What is a region?
An area with similar characteristics.
What is the Mercator Projection?
Preserves distance, distorts shape.
What is the Robinson Projection?
Preserves shape, distorts distance.
What is a Choropleth Map?
Sorts regions into areas by color.
What is an Isoline Map?
Uses lines to differentiate areas; a topographic map is a type of isoline map and shows elevation by lines.
What is a Dot Distribution Map?
Shows distribution of a certain thing by adding dots to the map; can show where things are more clustered.
What is a Graduated Symbol Map?
Uses symbols of different sizes to show data.
What is a Cartogram?
Shows data by bigger or smaller sizes.
What is Topography?
Shows different elevations by using topographic lines.
What is Remote Sensing?
Shows physical changes (erosion, natural disaster) on the earth’s surface.
What is Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?
Software technology that allows geographers to answer geographic questions; layering of different information for a hotspot to place something.
What is Global Positioning Systems (GPS)?
Used for precise location by orienting satellites around the world.
What is Site?
Describes exact location and what it is settled on; physical characteristic of a place.
What is Situation?
Describes relative location in relation to its surroundings; similar to relative location.
What is diffusion?
Diffusion is something spreading from one place to another.
What does hierarchical diffusion refer to?
Hierarchical diffusion involves the most amount of knowledge of an idea at the top, which slowly shrinks as it diffuses down.
What is contagious diffusion?
Contagious diffusion occurs when the level of knowledge is the same and happens by physical interaction between people; it is rapid.
What is stimulus diffusion?
Stimulus diffusion adapts to fit the needs of the people.
What is relocation diffusion?
Relocation diffusion occurs when a hearth no longer has faith in it and moves to another place through migration.
What is a cultural hearth?
A cultural hearth is where an idea (such as a religion or trend) began.
What are cultural barriers?
Cultural barriers are when culture prevents a person from doing something.
What is a cultural landscape?
A cultural landscape is the visual imprint of what humans have changed.
What is distance decay?
Distance decay refers to the phenomenon where as a person moves further from something or someone, their interactions are less likely; it is an indirect relationship.
What is time-space compression?
Time-space compression refers to the feeling that the world is getting smaller due to technology, such as faster travel and electronic communication.
What is cultural ecology?
Cultural ecology studies the relationship between culture and the environment.
What is environmental determinism?
Environmental determinism is the idea that the environment determines future outcomes; for example, a good environment leads to a good future.
What is possibilism?
Possibilism is the idea that humans can change the future of the land.
What is sustainability?
Sustainability is the ability to maintain something over a long period of time.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
A nonrenewable resource is something that cannot be produced over and over again; for example, oil and fossil fuels.
What are renewable resources?
Renewable resources are things that can be man-made and reproduced.
