What are the maps we carry in our minds of places we have been?
Mental Maps
100
What are the five themes of geography?
Location, human-environment, region, place, and movement.
100
Name the three types of regions.
Formal, functional, perceptual.
100
Name the FOUR types of EXPANSION DIFFUSION.
Contagious, hierarchical, stimulus, relocation.
100
True or False: No place on Earth is untouched by people.
TRU.
200
The art and science of making maps
Cartography
200
You develop a _____ by infusing a place with meaning and emotion, by remembering important events that occurred in the place, or by labeling a place with a certain character.
Sense of place
200
Regions serve as ______ frames of reference.
INFORMAL.
200
Diffusion occurs through the movement of what THREE things across space?
People, goods, or ideas.
200
What type of maps show locations of places in geographic features?
reference maps
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
Describe the characteristics of ABSOLUTE LOCATION and RELATIVE LOCATION.
ABSOLUTE LOCATION: Exact location described using longitude and latitude.
RELATIVE LOCATION: Describes a place in relation to other human and physical features.
300
Describe LOCATION THEORY
An element of contemporary human geography that seeks answers to a wide range of questions - some of them theoretical, others highly practical
300
Areas marked by visible uniformity are referred to as ______ regions.
FORMAL regions.
300
Explain time-distance decay.
The acceptance of an innovation becomes less likely the father it is away from its heart and the longer it takes to reach its potential adopters.
300
Explain GEOCACHING.
A hunt of a cache whose coordinates are place on the internet by other geocachers.
400
Describe the difference between culture traits and culture complex.
Culture complex is made up of culture traits.
400
MOVEMENT refers to what three things?
Mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet
400
A _____ region is a spatial system; its boundaries are defined by the limits of that system.
FUNCTIONAL region.
400
The spread of a disease or even Islam is this type of diffusion.
CONTAGIOUS DIFFUSION.
400
The establishment of what satellite base system allows us to locate things on the surface of the Earth with extraordinary accuracy.
Global Positioning System (GPS)
500
Name AND describe the 5 types of diffusions.
Expansion: Innovation or idea that develops in a hearth and remains strong there while spreading outwards.
Contagious: Distance-controlled diffusion through a local population by contact from person to person.
Hierarchial: Diffusion spreads by passing first among the most connected places or people.
Stimulus: Diffusion in which a culutral adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place.
Relocation: Diffusion in which items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones.
500
What three methods do geographers use to develop insightful descriptions of different regions of the world?
Field work, quantitive, and qualitative
500
Which cultural geographer tackled the task of defining and delimiting the perceptual regions of the United States and southern Canada?
WILBUR ZELINSKY.
500
Explain how cultural barriers work against diffusion.
They prevent ideas, practices, traditions, etc. from being diffused.
500
The Tanzanian city of Dar Es Salaam provides an interesting urban example of what?