Unit 1 Flashcards
What does human geography include?
Culture, political, population, urban, economic, agriculture.
What are the five themes of geography?
Movement, Regions, Human Environmental Interaction, Place.
What are the different types of location?
Absolute (longitude and latitude) and relative location (landmarks and proximity).
What is the definition of place?
Distinctive physical and human characteristics of a place.
What purposes do maps serve?
As a reference tool and as a communication tool.
What are meridians?
Arcs drawn between the north and south poles. Measured in east and west, known as longitude.
What is the main reference line of meridians?
The prime meridian.
What are parallels?
Circles drawn parallel to the equator. Measured in north and south, known as latitude.
What is the main reference line of parallels?
The Equator.
What are the three types of map scale?
Ratio or fraction scale, written scale and graphic scale.
Why is map distortion a thing?
The earth’s spherical shape causes problems when transferring it on a flat piece of paper.
What are the four types of map distortion?
Shape, distance, relative size and direction.
What are the different types of maps?
Isoline, choropleth, graduated symbols, dot, and cartogram map.
What is GI Science?
Development and analysis of data about earth.
What is GIS
A computer system that captures, stores, queries, analyzes, and displays geographic data.
What is a map?
Used to convey information.
What is a toponym?
A name given to a place on earth.
How is location identified?
Place names (toponym), site, situation.
What is a region?
An area on earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics.
What are the three types of regions?
Formal, functional and perceptional regions.
What is formal region?
An area in which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.
What is functional region?
An area organized around a node or focal point.
What is perceptional region?
An area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity.
Why are different places similar?
Scale, space, and connection.
What is globalization?
Force (process) involving the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
What are transnational corporations and what do they do?
They conduct research, operate factories and sell products in many countries all over the globe.
What is globalization of culture?
Uniform culture preferences produce uniform cultural landscapes (ex. going to a McDonald’s in a different country).
What is density?
Frequency with which something occurs in space.
What is concentration?
Extent of an item’s spread over space (clustered and dispersed).
What is pattern?
Geometric arrangement of items in space (straight roads and culdesacs).
What is connection?
People, ideas, and objects move through diffusion.
What is relocation diffusion?
Spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another (language/religion brought to a new location due to migration).
What is expansion diffusion?
Spread of an item from one place to another in an “additive process” (Instagram Influencer, viral videos).
What are some technological advances?
Trips that used to take weeks now take hours, electronic communication is practically instantaneous.
