Unit 1 Vocabulary

Question 1

What is Absolute/Relative Location?

Answer 1

Absolute: The definite location of a place using a recognized coordinate system. Relative: The relationship of a place to another Place or near by a landmark.(Always Changing)

Question 2

What does Accessibility mean?

Answer 2

The ability to reach a place with respect to another place. The quality of being able to be reached or entered.

Question 3

What is Aerial Photography?

Answer 3

Taking of photographs from an aircraft or other airborne platforms.

Question 4

What is a Built Environment?

Answer 4

The tangible human creation on the landscape.

Question 5

What is Cartography?

Answer 5

Making/studying of maps

Question 6

What is a Cartographic Scale?

Answer 6

The scale of a map is the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground.

Question 7

What is Concentration?

Answer 7

the extent to which a small number of regions account for a large proportion of a certain economic phenomenon

Question 8

What is Connectivity?

Answer 8

The relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.

Question 9

What is Cultural Ecology?

Answer 9

Cultural ecology is the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments.

Question 10

What is Cultural Landscape?

Answer 10

landscapes that have been affected, influenced, or shaped by human involvement.

Question 11

What is Density?

Answer 11

the number of things—which could be people, animals, plants, or objects—in a certain area. (Mostly People)

Question 12

What is Diffusion?

Answer 12

the spread of ideas, objects, inventions, and other practices from place to place.

Question 13

What is Distance?

Answer 13

distance is the distance measured along the surface of the earth

Question 14

What is Distance-Decay?

Answer 14

the strength of a relationship between people, places, or systems decreases as the separation between them increases.

Question 15

What is Distortion?

Answer 15

Depending on which map we are talking about, maps can distort shapes, sizes, length, width, etc of certain terrains. This can create a map that is not actually too correct scale.

Question 16

What is Distribution?

Answer 16

the way something is spread out or arranged over a geographic area.

Question 17

What is Elevation?

Answer 17

Measurement of height above sea level.

Question 18

What is Environmental Determinism?

Answer 18

the environment, specifically its physical factors such as climate, determines the patterns of human culture and societal development.

Question 19

What is the Equator?

Answer 19

The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the northern and southern hemispheres. Located at 0 degrees latitude.

Question 20

What is Field Observation?

Answer 20

the act of physically visiting a location, place, or region and recording, firsthand, information there. absolute location. The exact position of a place on the earth’s surface.

Question 21

What is Field Work?

Answer 21

the process of observing and collecting data about people, cultures, and natural environments.

Question 22

What is a formal/uniformed region?

Answer 22

An area defined by one predominant or universal characteristic throughout its entire area.

Question 23

Friction of Distance

Answer 23

the idea that movement over space requires effort, resulting in an undesirable loss of resources, typically called a cost or impedance, that is directly proportional to the distance between a source and destination.

Question 24

Functional/Nodal Region

Answer 24

a social or economic function that occurs between a node or focal point and the surrounding areas.

Question 25

Human Geography

Answer 25

the branch of geography that studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment

Question 26

Human-Environment

Answer 26

the natural or physical environment, including the components, structures, and functioning of ecosystems, and the relationship of people with that environment, including aesthetic, historic, cultural, economic, social, and human health−related components.

Question 27

International Data Line

Answer 27

International Date Line, also called Date Line, imaginary line extending between the North Pole and the South Pole and arbitrarily demarcating each calendar day

Question 28

Landscape analysis

Answer 28

Landscape Analysis outlines the strengths, resources, and needs of a particular community.

Question 29

Physical Geography

Answer 29

he branch of natural science which deals with the processes and patterns in the natural environment such as the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere

Question 30

Processes

Answer 30

A sequence of actions, natural and/or cultural, that shape and change environments, places and societies.

Question 31

Qualitative Data

Answer 31

descriptive information and tends to be more subjective.

Question 32

Reference Data

Answer 32

shows the location of the geographic areas for which census data are tabulated and disseminated. The maps display the boundaries, names and unique identifiers of standard geographic areas, as well as major cultural and physical features,

Question 33

Regionalization

Answer 33

the way that an area of the world containing several countries becomes more economically or politically important than the particular countries within that area:

Question 34

Remote Senses

Answer 34

the process of taking pictures of the Earth’s surface from satellites to provide a greater understanding of the Earth’s geography over large distances.

Question 35

Situation

Answer 35

the location of a place relative to its surroundings and other places.

Question 36

Spatial Approach

Answer 36

The way of identifying, explaining, and predicting the human and physical patterns and the connections of various locations.

Question 37

Spatial Association

Answer 37

means connectedness or relationship between and among variables over space.

Question 38

Spatial Interaction

Answer 38

a basic concept that considers how locations interact with each other in terms of the movement of people, freight, services, energy, or information.

Question 39

Spatial Data

Answer 39

type of data that directly or indirectly references a specific geographical area or location

Question 40

Sustainability

Answer 40

the practice of using natural resources responsibly, so they can support both present and future generations

Question 41

Thematic Map

Answer 41

A map that emphasizes the spatial patterns of geographic statistics of attributes, and sometimes the relationships between them

Question 42

Toponym

Answer 42

The names given to places