Goegraphy Basics
What is a region?
A group of places with similar characteristics.
What is culture?
The shared beliefs, traditions, and behaviors of a group.
What is a mental map?
An internal image or perception of the world around us.
Give one example of HEI (how have humans changed the earth to help them?)
Deforestation, building dams, or irrigation systems.
What is absolute location?
The exact spot on Earth using latitude and longitude. (Or it's street address.)
Give two examples of cultural characteristics.
Language, religion, customs, or architecture.
What is perception?
The way people interpret or view a place or event.
What are renewable resources?
Natural resources that can be replaced naturally (e.g., wind, water, wood).
What is relative location?
Describes where a place is in relation to another place.
What is cultural diffusion?
The spread of cultural traits from one place to another.
How might geography be influenced by perception?
People’s opinions or beliefs about a region affect how they map or interact with it.
What are nonrenewable resources?
Resources that cannot be easily replaced (e.g., coal, oil, nuclear).
Define push and pull factors.
Push Factors: Reasons people are driven to leave a place.
Pull Factors: Reasons people are attracted to move to a new place.
Chinatowns are examples of what kind of cultural region?
Ethnic neighborhoods.
What is the job of a cartographer?
They create and study maps.
What are capital and human resources?
Capital: money/equipment
Human: labor/workforce.
What is distortion and why does it occur on maps?
Misrepresentations of the Earth because it’s round, but maps are flat.
Give an example of how religion has united or divided a region.
United: Islamic world
Divided: Catholic v. Protestant in Northern Ireland
What is cartography?
The science of map making.
List the four levels of economic activity.
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary.