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What are the four distortions of maps? |
Area, shape, distance and direction. |
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What does human geography focus on? |
How people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other and how we make sense of ourselves and others. |
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What is spatial distribution? |
The arrangement of a featured space. |
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Three ways spatial distribution is organized? |
Density, concentration, and pattern (geometric or irregular) |
Physiological density - number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture Agricultural density - number of farmers per unit of area Housing density - number of dwelling perons |
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What are the five themes of geography? |
Location, movement, region, place and human-enviroment interaction. |
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What are the four ways to describe location? |
Place name, site, situation, mathematical location |
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Describe two examples of human-enviroment interaction. |
Netherlands modified the enviroment by using dikes to create a polder because the country was underground. (Zuider Zee) The Kissimmee River was modified by Florida to prevent flooding in the area but resulted with salt water mixing, animal waste washing in, and pollution. |
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You can tell a formal region based on... |
borders. |
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Who calculated the circumference of Earth, and coined the term geography? |
Eratoshenese |
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Divided by the principal meridian and the baseline, what is the section called? Then what is it called when divided once again? |
A township. A range. |
6x6x6x6 1x1x1x1 |
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What is the difference between absolute location and relative location? |
Absolute is exact and relative changes overtime. |
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What is uses satellites to collect data? |
Remote sensing. |
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What is used to analyze data? |
GIS. |
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Three types of map scales are... |
Written statements, fraction/ratio, graphic bar scale. |
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Greater the detail the _______ the scale. |
greater |
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How many people does a census tract record? |
50,000 people |
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What part of the city do most people tend to cluster in? |
The center, the origin, the node, the hearth. |
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Define a functional region and give examples. |
Defined by the activities within the region. One, but not limited to, example is the reception of a TV channel. |
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What has to fit characteristics to be considered that region? |
A vernacular or perceptual region. |
The south. |
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Define culture complex. |
A group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait. |
Most Americans celebrate Christmas, but they celebrate differently. |
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What is time-distance decay? |
The farther you get from the hearth the less the influence. |
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What is diffusion? |
The spread of an idea. |
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What are the three parts of expansion diffusion? Describe them. (in the hint) |
Contagious, stimulus, and hierarchical. |
Contagious - think passes on quickly like a disease. Hierarchical - imagine the triangle, the idea starts at the top, with celebrities, then passes down, lower and lower. Stimulus - failed mainstream ideas. |
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What is the type of diffusion that cannot be passed by social media? |
Relocation diffusion. |
Relocation diffusion is the movement of people. Examples are: AIDS - passed through people, so when a person with AIDS moves, they may pass it to someone else in the new area. |
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What is the ideal that we are controlled by climate and landscape? |
Environmental determinism. |
Its basically like the belief that most European countries had adopted. Because England had amazing climate and landscape, they had a superior country. With their superior country, they could rule where other civilizations did not become as successful. |
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What counters environmental determinism? |
Possibilism. |
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What does it mean to have spatial perspective? |
Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space. (HOW ITS ORGANIZED) |
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What degree is the equator at? |
0 degrees. |
Equator creates a great circle, cutting the world into two equal halves. |
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What degree is the Prime Meridian? |
0 degrees. |
When you go all the way around, to the opposite side of the meridian, there will be the International Dateline, which is 180 degrees. |
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Another word of latitude is... |
Parallels. |
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