Unit 1 vocab

Question 1

Absolute distance

Answer 1

The distance that can be measured with a standard unit length, such as a mile or kilometer.

Question 2

Absolute location

Answer 2

The position of place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expresed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, 0° to 90° north or south of the equator, and longitude, 0° to 180° east or west of the Prime Meridian passing through Greenwich, England.

Question 3

Accessibility

Answer 3

The opportunity for contact or interaction from a given point or location, in relation to other locations.

Question 4

Concentration

Answer 4

The extent of a feature’s spread over space; not same as density. Can have same density but completely different this

Question 5

Connectivity

Answer 5

The directness of routes linking pairs of places; an indication of the degree of internal connection in a transport network; all of the tangible and intangible means of connection and communication between places.

Question 6

Cultural landscape

Answer 6

A combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation. (defined by Carl Sauer as an area fashioned from nature by a cultural group) [Cultural Attributes]

Question 7

Density

Answer 7

The frequency with which something occurs in space (can be measures of people, houses, cars, volcanoes, or anything, with any method of measurement)

Question 8

Dispersion

Answer 8

The pattern of spacing among individuals within geographic population boundaries.

Question 9

Formal region

Answer 9

An area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics, generally identified to help explain broad global or national patterns, generally illustrating a general concept rather than a precise mathematical distribution.

Question 10

Functional region

Answer 10

Area organized around a node or focal point/place where there is a central focus that diminishes in importance outward. Used to display information about economic areas.

Question 11

Geographic Information System (GIS)

Answer 11

A system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data.

Question 12

Globalization

Answer 12

The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact. The process of _______ transcend state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and states.

Question 13

Absolute direction

Answer 13

A compass direction such as north or south.

Question 14

Mental map

Answer 14

Image of picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual’s perception, impression, and knowledge of that space.

Question 15

Model

Answer 15

A system or thing used as an example to follow or imitate.

Question 16

A physical landscape or environment that has not been affected by human activities.

Answer 16

Natural landscape

Question 17

Area organized around a node or focal point/place where there is a central focus that diminishes in importance outward. Used to display information about economic areas.

Answer 17

Nodal Region

Question 18

The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a sturdy area.

Answer 18

Patterns

Question 19

Regions are areas that have similar characteristics

Answer 19

Perceptual Region

Question 20

The fourth theme of geography as defined by the Geography Educational National Implementation Project; uniqueness of a location.

Answer 20

Place

Question 21

Places that lack a “sense of place”. These landscapes are those that have no special relationship to the places in which they are located—they could be anywhere.

Answer 21

Placelessness

Question 22

A systematic transformation of the latitudes and longitudes of locations on the surface of a sphere or an ellipsoid into locations on a plane.

Answer 22

projection

Question 23

The third theme of Geography as defined by the GENIP; an area on the Earth’s surface marked by a degree of formal, funtional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomenon.

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Region

Question 24

A measure of distance that includes the costs of overcoming the friction of absolute distance separating two places. Often describes the amount of social, cultural, or economic, connectivity between two places.

Answer 24

Relative distance

Question 25

Directions such as left, right, forward, backward, up, and down based on people’s perception of places

Answer 25

Relative direction

Question 26

The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places.

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Relative location

Question 27

The art and science of making measurements of the earth using sensors on airplanes or satellites. These sensors collect data in the form of images and provide specialized capabilities for manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing those images.

Answer 27

Remote sensing scale

Question 28

A physical character of a place, such as characteristics like climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation

Answer 28

Site

Question 29

The location of a place relative to other places; valuable to indicate location: finding an unfamiliar place and understanding its importance by comparing location with familiar one and learning their accessibility to other places.

Answer 29

Situation

Question 30

Considered as land, and can have a relation to ownership usage

Answer 30

Space

Question 31

Geography book, Mediterranean sea center, genealogies

Answer 31

Hecataeus

Question 32

A Greek scholar who worked in the third century B.C.E, who accurately calculated the circumference of the Earth by using the sun’s angle on the summer solstice along two points of the Nile River, which was the Alexandria and Syene.

Answer 32

Eratosthenes

Question 33

German geographer, a founder of modern human geography.

Answer 33

Carl Ritter

Question 34

Alexander VonHumboldt

Answer 34

Prussian geographer, one of the founders of modern geography

Question 35

Roman geographer-astronomer and author of Guide to Geography which included maps containing a grid system of latitude and longitude

Answer 35

Ptolemy

Question 36

A Moroccan explorer of Berber descent, who is widely recognised as one of the greatest travelers of all time.[1][2] He is known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla

Answer 36

Ibn Baṭūṭah

Question 37

An 11th century Arab geographer that worked for the king of Sicily to collect geographical information into a remarkably accurate representation of the world. Under his direction, an academy of geographers gathered maps and went out on their own scientific expeditions.

Answer 37

Idrisi

Question 38

Herodotus

Answer 38

He wrote a number of volumes that described the human and physical geography of the various regions of the Persian Empire.

Question 39

An area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics, generally identified to help explain broad global or national patterns, generally illustrating a general concept rather than a precise mathematical distribution

Answer 39

Uniform region

Question 40

Physical location of geographic phenomena across space.

Answer 40

Spatial Distribution

Question 41

Functions as a unit because its component parts are interdependent. systems of geographic concern are those in which the functionally important variables are spatial: location, distance, direction, density, and other basic concepts (makes up regions)

Answer 41

Spatial system

Question 42

Applying regions to our everyday language (“go downtown”). engaging in an informal place classification to pass along quite complex spatial, organizational, or content ideas

Answer 42

Regional concept

Question 43

The process of dispersion of an idea or an item from a center of origin to more distant points with which it is directly or indirectly connected.

Answer 43

Spatial diffusion

Question 44

The movement and flows involving human activity

Answer 44

Spatial Interaction