unit 1

Question 1

What are the two types of location?

Answer 1

Absolute location - exact and precise

Relative location - relative area and not exact

Question 2

What is a place?

Answer 2

A unique characteristic that distinguishes one place from another.

Question 3

What are the three types of human interaction with the environment?

Answer 3

Using environment - cutting down trees for wood

Adapting - getting used to the cold weather

Modifying - cutting down trees for more space to add houses

Question 4

What does movement refer to in geography?

Answer 4

How goods and people trade/are moved.

Question 5

What is a region?

Answer 5

An area with similar characteristics.

Question 6

What is the Mercator Projection?

Answer 6

Preserves distance, distorts shape.

Question 7

What is the Robinson Projection?

Answer 7

Preserves shape, distorts distance.

Question 8

What is a Choropleth Map?

Answer 8

Sorts regions into areas by color.

Question 9

What is an Isoline Map?

Answer 9

Uses lines to differentiate areas; a topographic map is a type of isoline map and shows elevation by lines.

Question 10

What is a Dot Distribution Map?

Answer 10

Shows distribution of a certain thing by adding dots to the map; can show where things are more clustered.

Question 11

What is a Graduated Symbol Map?

Answer 11

Uses symbols of different sizes to show data.

Question 12

What is a Cartogram?

Answer 12

Shows data by bigger or smaller sizes.

Question 13

What is Topography?

Answer 13

Shows different elevations by using topographic lines.

Question 14

What is Remote Sensing?

Answer 14

Shows physical changes (erosion, natural disaster) on the earth’s surface.

Question 15

What is Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?

Answer 15

Software technology that allows geographers to answer geographic questions; layering of different information for a hotspot to place something.

Question 16

What is Global Positioning Systems (GPS)?

Answer 16

Used for precise location by orienting satellites around the world.

Question 17

What is Site?

Answer 17

Describes exact location and what it is settled on; physical characteristic of a place.

Question 18

What is Situation?

Answer 18

Describes relative location in relation to its surroundings; similar to relative location.

Question 19

What is diffusion?

Answer 19

Diffusion is something spreading from one place to another.

Question 20

What does hierarchical diffusion refer to?

Answer 20

Hierarchical diffusion involves the most amount of knowledge of an idea at the top, which slowly shrinks as it diffuses down.

Question 21

What is contagious diffusion?

Answer 21

Contagious diffusion occurs when the level of knowledge is the same and happens by physical interaction between people; it is rapid.

Question 22

What is stimulus diffusion?

Answer 22

Stimulus diffusion adapts to fit the needs of the people.

Question 23

What is relocation diffusion?

Answer 23

Relocation diffusion occurs when a hearth no longer has faith in it and moves to another place through migration.

Question 24

What is a cultural hearth?

Answer 24

A cultural hearth is where an idea (such as a religion or trend) began.

Question 25

What are cultural barriers?

Answer 25

Cultural barriers are when culture prevents a person from doing something.

Question 26

What is a cultural landscape?

Answer 26

A cultural landscape is the visual imprint of what humans have changed.

Question 27

What is distance decay?

Answer 27

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.

Question 28

What is time-space compression?

Answer 28

Time-space compression refers to the feeling that the world is getting smaller due to technology, such as faster travel and electronic communication.

Question 29

What is cultural ecology?

Answer 29

Cultural ecology studies the relationship between culture and the environment.

Question 30

What is environmental determinism?

Answer 30

Environmental determinism is the idea that the environment determines future outcomes; for example, a good environment leads to a good future.

Question 31

What is possibilism?

Answer 31

Possibilism is the idea that humans can change the future of the land.

Question 32

What is sustainability?

Answer 32

Sustainability is the ability to maintain something over a long period of time.

Question 33

What is a nonrenewable resource?

Answer 33

A nonrenewable resource is something that cannot be produced over and over again; for example, oil and fossil fuels.

Question 34

What are renewable resources?

Answer 34

Renewable resources are things that can be man-made and reproduced.