Unit 1 Vocab

Question 1

Human Georgraphy

Answer 1

How people, places, space and society make sense of each other

Question 2

The four levels of Human Geography

Answer 2

1. What is it?
2. Where is it?
3. Why is it there?
4. Who cares?

Question 3

Geography

Answer 3

A study of the physical features and characteristics of the earth

Question 4

Globalization

Answer 4

A set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regards to country borders. A set of outcomes that are unevenly distributed, varying across scales.

Question 5

Spacial

Answer 5

An arrangement of places and phenomena (human and physical)

Question 6

Spacial distribution

Answer 6

Distribution of statistics among a spacial

Question 7

5 Themes

Answer 7

Movement (mobility)
Region (organization of areas)
Human environment (interactions)
Environment (connections)
Location (earths surface)
Place (specific points)

Question 8

Sense of Place

Answer 8

Infusing a place with meaning and emotion

Question 9

Perception of place

Answer 9

Belief or understand of what a place is like, often based on books, movies, stories and pictures

Question 10

Cultural landscape

Answer 10

The visible human imprint on the landscape

Question 11

Sequent occupance

Answer 11

Layers of imprints in a cultural landscape that reflect years

Question 12

Reference map

Answer 12

A map that shows the location of places and geographic features with ABSOLUTE locations. Used for time and location

Question 13

Thematic map

Answer 13

A map that tells a story about the degree of an attribute, the pattern of its distribution, or it’s movement. RELATIVE location and are more commonly used

Question 14

Mental maps

Answer 14

Maps you carry in your mind

Question 15

Activity spaces

Answer 15

Places that we travel to routinely

Question 16

Geographic information system (GIS)

Answer 16

A collection of computer hardware and software that store and analysis data

Question 17

Remote sensing

Answer 17

A method of collecting data by instruments that are physically distant form the area of study

Question 18

Scale

Answer 18

The territorial extent of something

Local, regional, national, or global

Question 19

Mercator

Answer 19

A map of earth that is flattened

Question 20

Goodies homolosine

Answer 20

A map that is interrupted and messed up

Question 21

Formal region

Answer 21

Defined by a commonality, like a cultural linkage or characteristic
Ex. The German speaking region of Europe

Question 22

Functional region

Answer 22

Defined by a set of social, political or economic activities

Ex. An urban area

Question 23

Perceptual region

Answer 23

Ideas in our minds, based on accumulated knowledge of places and regions that define and else was of some mess or connectedness
Ex. The south, the mid-Atlantic, the Middle East

Question 24

Culture

Answer 24

An all encompassing term that identifies the lifestyle of people, their prevailing values and beliefs. WAY OF LIFE

Question 25

Cultural trait

Answer 25

A singular part of culture

Question 26

Cultural complex

Answer 26

Multiple parts of culture

Question 27

Cultural hearth

Answer 27

The center point of culture, where it started

Question 28

Diffusion

Answer 28

The spread of an idea or innovation from the hearth to other areas. Time/ distance decay and cultural barrier slow down diffusion

Question 29

Expansion diffusion

Answer 29

How things spread

• contagious
• hierarchical
• stimulus

Question 30

Contagious

Answer 30

Expansion diffusion that spreads adjacently (like a disease)

Question 31

Hierarchical

Answer 31

Expansion diffusion that spreads to the most linked people or places first

Question 32

Stimulus

Answer 32

An idea to at promoted a local experiment or change in the way people do things

Question 33

Relocation diffusion

Answer 33

When people move and carry and idea or innovation with them to a new place

Question 34

Pangaea

Answer 34

The theory that there was a super continent that broke apart into fragments we know as continents

Question 35

Plate Techtonics

Answer 35

The earth is divided into plates, which are always moving

Question 36

Pacific Plate

Answer 36

Pacific ‘ring of fire”- The most dangerous tectonic plate that contains the highest number of volcanoes and earthquakes

Question 37

Pleistocene

Answer 37

The theory that the earth was in a deep freeze. Proven by glaciations (permanent ice) and interglaciation (melting ice)

Question 38

Mount Tola

Answer 38

Mountain that exploded, altering global climate and leaving this caldera, creating an “evolutionary bottleneck”