Unit 1 Test Review

Question 1

What is human geography

Answer 1

The study of the world and how humans interact with it

Question 2

What does human geo try to do

Answer 2

Answer what?where?why?and so what?-5 themes of geography

Question 3

Globalization

Answer 3

Countries are connected and dependent on each other

Question 4

Physical geography

Answer 4

Geography dealing with natural features and processes

Question 5

Spatial perspective

Answer 5

How people use their space

Question 6

Epidemic

Answer 6

Regional outbreak of disease

Question 7

Pandemic

Answer 7

Worldwide outbreak of disease

Question 8

Sequent occupance

Answer 8

Layering of culture on a society

Question 9

activity spaces

Answer 9

Space of daily activity

Question 10

Terra incognita

Answer 10

Unknown territory

Question 11

GIS

Answer 11

World digital mapping

Question 12

GPS

Answer 12

Device that shows your exact position

Question 13

Absolute location

Answer 13

Exact place on the earth

Question 14

Relative location

Answer 14

Location in relation to another location

Question 15

Centrality

Answer 15

Drawing to a place

Question 16

Scale

Answer 16

Putting the earth in proportions

Question 17

Mental maps

Answer 17

Map in your head

Question 18

Realm

Answer 18

Region sphere or domain

Question 19

Regions

Answer 19

An area with commonality

Question 20

Cultural region

Answer 20

A region that has common cultural elements

Question 21

Cultural diffusion

Answer 21

Spread of an idea from one culture to another

Question 22

Expansion diffusion

Answer 22

Spread an idea rapidly

Question 23

Contagious diffusion

Answer 23

Diffusion spread like an illness

Question 24

Hierarchal diffusion

Answer 24

An idea goes from power place to power place

Question 25

Stimulus diffusion

Answer 25

Spread an idea and adapt it

Question 26

Relocation diffusion

Answer 26

Move your idea with you

Question 27

Migrant diffusion

Answer 27

When you leave you take your idea and it shrinks back where you left

Question 28

Formal region

Answer 28

Defined by the geographer

Question 29

Functional region

Answer 29

Region defined by activities

Question 30

Perceptual region

Answer 30

Region by how you see it

Question 31

Regional identity

Answer 31

Feeling of being at home

Question 32

Cultural ecology

Answer 32

Cultural adaptation to an environment

Question 33

Environmental

Answer 33

Surrounding conditions or influences

Question 34

Determinism

Answer 34

When the environment determines your choices

Question 35

Possibilism

Answer 35

Social conditions determine your choices

Question 36

Distance decay

Answer 36

The farther away you are the least likely it is to affect you

Question 37

5 themes of geography

Answer 37

Place movement region location and human environment interactions

Question 38

Location theory

Answer 38

Addresses questions of what economic activities are located where and why

Question 39

Sense of place and perspective of place

Answer 39

Character of a place the meaning people give to it or both How people see a place

Question 40

Cultural landscape

Answer 40

A geographic area including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife there

Question 41

Topographic map

Answer 41

Shows natural and human made features

Question 42

Thematic map

Answer 42

Specific idea or theme

Question 43

Navigational map

Answer 43

Used to navigate air and water

Question 44

Homolosine map

Answer 44

Most accurate map with the distortion in the water

Question 45

Mercator

Answer 45

Flat; distortion everywhere

Question 46

Azimuthal

Answer 46

Explorers look of pole

Question 47

Molewide

Answer 47

Wide in the middle

Question 48

Robinson

Answer 48

Bulge in the middle

Question 49

Culture

Answer 49

Knowledge attitudes and behaviors in a society

Question 50

Anthropologists

Answer 50

Study human behavior culture and development

Question 51

Cultural traits

Answer 51

Single elements that you see in a culture

Question 52

Cultural complexes

Answer 52

Sets of traits in a culture

Question 53

Cultural hearth

Answer 53

Birthplace of an idea EX. River valley and Mesopotamia and west Africa

Question 54

What barriers get in the way of diffusion?

Answer 54

Time distance decay and cultural barriers and physical barriers