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Drtania and Aaron
Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Human Geography? | The branch of geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the Earth's surface. |
| What is physical geography? | the branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes. |
| What is a map? | a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc. |
| What is a place? | a particular position or point in space. |
| What is a site? | an area of ground on which a town, building, or monument is constructed. |
| What is a location? | a particular place or position. |
| What is a situation? | Refers to the external characteristics( what is nearby) that make that the location attractive. |
| What is region? | In geography, regions are areas broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human-impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography) |
| What is formal region? | A region delineated on the basis of one or more identifiable trait which sets it apart from other regions. |
| What is a functional Region? | A region that has defined core that retains a specific characteristic that diminishes outwards. |
| What is vernacular Region? | An area defined by subjective perceptions that reflect the feelings & images about key place characteristics. |
| What is space? | a continuous area or expanse that is free, available, or unoccupied. |
| What is connections? | a relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else. |
| what is cartography? | the science or practice of drawing maps. |
| What is Thematic Map? | is a type of map or chart especially designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area. |
| What is map scale? | a ratio which compares a measurement on a map to the actual distance between locations identified on the map |
| What is Map Projection? | a projecting or protruding part. |
| what is GPS? | Global Positioning System: a global system of U.S. navigational satellites developed to provide precise positional and velocity data and global time synchronization for air, sea, and land travel. |
| What is GIS? | A Geographic Information System or GIS is a computer system that allows you to map, model, query, and analyze large quantities of data within a single database according to their location |
| What is remote sensing? | the scanning of the earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it. |
| what is Meridians? | a circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth's surface and the terrestrial poles. |
| what is parallels? | a person or thing that is similar or analogous to another. |
| What is Coordinate System? | Defines the relationship of the reference spheroid to the Earth's surface. Prime meridian |
| What is a Equator? | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°. |
| What is a Prime Meridian? | a planet's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude. the earth's zero of longitude, which by convention passes through Greenwich, England |
| What is Cultural Landscape? | a geographic area (including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife or domestic animals therein), associated with a historic event, activity, or person or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values. |
| What is Mental Map? | The concept of a mental map may refer to a person's point-of-view perception of their area of interaction. |
| What is culture? | the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively |
| What is Spatial Perspective? | Geographers concentrate on the "where" and by doing this they may be able to gain a better understanding of what is being studied than if the "where" were ignored. This is the "Spatial Perspective" that is peculiar to the study of geography. |
| What is spacial Association? | The degree to which things are similarly arranged over space. Spatial association compares distribution patterns. A strong spatial association occurs where two distributions are similar. Weak association describes little similarity. No association occurs |
| what is spacial diffusion? | The distribution of ideas, products, culture, technology, innovation, languages and so on across space to other people. |
| What is absolute location? | however, is a term which has little real meaning, since any location must be expressed relative to something else. |
| What is relative location? | Absolute location, however, is a term which has little real meaning, since any location must be expressed relative to something else. |
| What is concentration? | The extent of a feature's spread over space; not same as density. Can have same density but completely different this |
| What is pattern? | arrangement of objects on earth's surface in relationship to one another. |
| What is Generalization? | a principle, theory, etc, with general applicatio |
| What is Globalization? | The process by which the world's countries and people become more alike, independent, and interact regardless of country borders 2. |
| What is resources? | something such as useful land, or minerals such as oil or coal, that exists in a country and can be used to increase its wealth: |
| What is distribution? | the spread of a feature over Earth? |
| What is density? | measures how much something there is |
| What is arithmetic density? | Arithmetic density Total number of objects in an area, commonly used to compare distribution of population in different countries. (# people / sq. kilometer / mile) [no correlation of high density & large population or high density to poverty |
| What is Space-time convergence? | The reduction in time it takes for people and things and connect due to increased access to technology and transportation advancements. |
| What is uneven development? | the result of increased globalization |
| What is Visualization? | The tools in geography that allow us to understand and explain where and why (ex= maps, charts, graphs, diagrams, pictures)2 |
| What is the First law of geography? | EVERYTHING is related to everything else, BUT closer things will interact more that things farther away 3 |
| what is a scale? | The ZOOMING in or out on Earth’s surface, in which we can study the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole 3 |
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