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for human geo quizz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute Direction | the cardinal directions north, south, east, and west |
| Absolute Distance | distance that can be measured using a standard unit of length |
| Absolute Location | the exact location of an object, usually expressed in coordinates of longitude and latitude |
| Cartographers | a person who creates maps |
| census | an official count of the number of people in a defined area, such as a state |
| Core | classification of a country or region that has wealth, higher education levels, more advanced technologies, many resources, strong militaries, and powerful allies |
| Distance Decay | a principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have |
| Density | the number of things—people, animals, or objects—in a specific area |
| Ecological Perspective | the relationships between living things and their environment |
| Environmental Determinism | the idea that human behavior is strongly affected, controlled, or determined by the physical environment |
| Flow | movement of people, goods, or information that has economic, social, political, or cultural effects on societies |
| Formal Region | an area that has one or more shared traits; also called a uniform region |
| Functional Region | an area organized by its function around a focal point, or the center of an interest or activity |
| Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | a computer system that allows for the collection, organization, and display of geographic data for analysis |
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | a network of satellites that orbit Earth and transmit location data to receivers, enabling users to pinpoint their exact location |
| Globalization | the expansion of economic, cultural, and political processes on a worldwide scale |
| Human Geography | the study of the processes that have shaped how humans understand, use, and alter Earth. |
| Location | The position that a point or object occupies on Earth. |
| Map Scale | the relationship of the size of the map to the size of the area it represents on Earth's surface |
| Mental Maps | internalized representations of portions of Earth's surface |
| Node | the focal point of a functional region |
| Pattern | the way in which things are arranged in a particular space |
| Perceptual Region | a type of region that reflects people’s feelings and attitudes about a place; also called a vernacular region |
| Periphery | classification of a country or region that has less wealth, lower education levels, and less sophisticated technologies and also tends to have an unstable government and poor health systems |
| Physical Geography | the study of natural processes and the distribution of features in the environment, such as landforms, plants, animals, soil, and climate |
| Place | a location on Earth that is distinguished by its physical and human characteristics |
| Possibilism | theory of human-environment interaction that states that humans have the ability to adapt the physical environment to their needs |
| Qualitative | involving data that is descriptive of a research subject and is often based on people's opinions |
| Quantitative | involving data that can be measured by numbers |
| Reference Maps | a map that focuses on the location of places |
| Region | an area of Earth’s surface with certain characteristics that make it distinct yet cohesive from other areas |
| Relative Direction | direction based on a person's perception, such as left, right, up, or down |
| Relative Distance | distance determined in relation to other places or objects |
| Relative Location | a description of where a place is in relation to other places or features |
| Remote Sensing | a method of collecting or analyzing data from a location without making physical contact |
| Scale | the area of the world being studied |
| Semi-Periphey | classification of a country or region that has qualities of both core and peripheral areas and is often in the process of industrializing |
| Site | a place’s absolute location, as well as its physical characteristics, such as the landforms, climate, and resources |
| Situation | location of a place in relation to other places or its surrounding features |
| Space | the area between two or more things |
| Spatial Perspective | geographic perspective that focuses on how people live on Earth, how they organize themselves, and why the events of human societies occur where they do |
| Suburbs | less densely populated residential and commercial areas surrounding a city |
| Sustainability | the use of Earth’s land and natural resources in ways that ensure they will continue to be available in the future |
| Sustainable Development | development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs |
| Thematic Maps | any map that focuses on one or more variables to show a relationship between geographic data |
| Theory | a system of ideas intended to explain certain phenomena |
| Time-space compression | a key geographic principle that describes the ways in which modern transportation and communication technology have allowed humans to travel and communicate over long distances quicker and easier |
| Topography | the representation of earth's surface to show natural and man-made features, especially their relative positions and elevations |
| Vernacular Region | a type of region that reflects people’s feelings and attitudes about a place; also called a perceptual region |
| World System Theory | theory describing the spatial and functional relationships between countries in the world economy; categorizes countries as part of a hierarchy consisting of the core, periphery, and semi-periphery |
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