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Chapter 1 Test
vocab words and people for chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| absolute location | address, longitude, latitude |
| relative location | where a place is near |
| GIS | geographic information system |
| cartography | science of map making |
| Eratosthenes | first recorded person to use the word geography |
| Ptolomy | wrote the guide to geography |
| Phei Hsiu | "father of Chinese cartography" |
| Ibn-Battutah | wrote Rihlah meaning Travels. Spent 3 decades mapping 75,000 miles of the Muslim World |
| scale | ratios of size on a map |
| projection | 3d earth onto map |
| distortion | imperfections of a projection |
| 3 types of distortions | shape, relative size, distance |
| site | physical characteristic of a place |
| toponym | name given to a place on earth |
| possibilism | ability to alter environment |
| situation | relative location |
| mathmatical location | absolute location |
| longitude | parralel to prime meridian |
| latitude | parralel to equator |
| formal region | everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristic |
| other name for formal region | homogeneous, uniform |
| functional region | region with a central focus point |
| other name for functional region | nodal |
| vernacular region | a place that people believes is part of their cultural identity |
| other name for vernacular region | perceptual |
| example of functional region | a radio station signal |
| example of vernacular region | the United States south |
| globalization | process that involves whole world, and makes something worldwide in scope |
| transnational cooperation | conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many places |
| density | frequency somethings occurs in area |
| arithmetic density | total number of objects in an area |
| physiological density | number of persons per unit of area suitable for agriculture |
| agricultural density | number of farmers per unit area of farmland |
| concentration | extent of a features spread over space |
| clustered | close together |
| dispersed | relatively far apart |
| diffusion | spread of an idea or characteristic over time |
| relocation | spread of an idea through physical movement of people |
| expansion | spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process |
| heirarchical | spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places |
| contagious | rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population |
| stimulus | spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse |
| hearth/node | place that a diffusion starts in |
| Us Land ordinance of 1785 | When the congress allowed farmers to buy undeveloped land in the west and it influenced them moving west |
| Space time compression | Describes the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place |
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