click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
World Regional Geo 1
World Regional Geography Dual Credit
Question | Answer |
---|---|
What is the study of Geography? | The study of people, place, environment, and space |
What 2 things does World Geography incorporate? | Physical and Human Geography |
What is HUMAN geography ? | The study of people, culture, and the shaping of place and environment. |
What is PHYSICAL geography? | The analysis of people, place ,space to study Earths environment |
What is the similarity between HUMAN AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY? | Both study reciprocal relationships(Human and physical-environment relations. |
What are the two ways scale is used? | 1.To explain the relationship between the distance on a map and distance on Earth. 2.To analyze the scope of Earth. |
What 2 things does World Geography incorporate? | Physical and Human Geography |
What is HUMAN geography ? | The study of people, culture, and the shaping of place and environment. |
What is PHYSICAL geography? | The analysis of people, place ,space to study Earths environment |
What is the similarity between HUMAN AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY? | Both study reciprocal relationships(Human and physical-environment relations. |
What is the similarity between HUMAN AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY? | Both study reciprocal relationships(Human and physical-environment relations. |
What is the similarity between HUMAN AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY? | Both study reciprocal relationships(Human and physical-environment relations. |
What is space? | The abstract boundless set of connections and construction of relations where processes occur. |
What is place? | The uniqueness of a location. |
What is scale? | The geographical scope(Local, national, or global) in which we analyze and understand a phenomenon) |
What are the two ways scale is used? | 1.To explain the relationship between the distance on a map and distance on Earth. 2.To analyze the scope of the Earth(local, national, or global) |
What is a TRADITIONAL region? | Naturally occurring areas of similarity |
What is a MODERN region? | An area determined by a combination of PHYSICAL and CULTURAL |
Who defines region? And why? | Governments, corporations, and international organizations. To build relations for economic purposes |
What do regions reflect? | The social, political, and economic processes weaving through places and across different people. |
What is a formal region? | An area of land made by CULTURAL or PHYSICAL means. |
What is a functional region? | An area that has a shared political, economic purpose. |
What is a perceptual region? | What an individual sees in their mind? |
What is relocation diffusion? | When people take ideas and innovations from their homeland with them. |
What are the two categories of expansion diffusion? | 1. Contiguous diffusion 2. hierarchical diffusion |
What is Contiguous diffusion? | Is when ideas and innovations spread from the hearth to nearby places and people FIRST. |
What is hierarchical diffusion? | When ideas are spread to IMPORTANT places(empires, governments etc.) skipping over people/ places in-between. |
When was globalization established? | Between 1500 and 1950 |
What is cartography? | The art and science of making maps. |
What are the two categories of cartography? | Reference maps- shows location Thematic maps-tells a story of data |
What is represented in a Reference map | Absolute locations. |
What is represented in a Thematic map | Relative locations. |
What is a GIS(Geographic Information System)? | A computer map that stores a lot of data used for spatial analysis |
What is a remote sensing system. | A computer map that uses satellites to show any changes in an environment. |