Chapter 1 Study Guide

A ________location is the position of a place or thing in relation to that of other places or things

Relative

Site

the physical and cultural attributes of a place

Relative Location

the position of a place or thing in relation to that of other places and things

The concept of ________ describes the tangible and intangible ways in which places are connected

connectivity

The visible imprint of human activity on a place is referred to as the

cultural landscape

The physical characteristics of a place, such as its climate, are called the ____ landscape

natural

Not an example of relative direction

northwest

Physical characteristics that describe the natural landscape of a place?

-Climate -Slope steepness -mineral reasources

Which of the following are examples of the cultural landscape of a place?

-Land use -character of a neighborhood -a street pattern around a building

Which of these are examples of networks (the patterns of routes connecting sets of places)?

-Telephone -internet -highways

Examples of relative direction

-Up North -Middle East -back east -far east

Which of these are examples of networks (the patterns of routes conecting sets of places)?

-highways -the internet -telephone wires

T/F: Geographic analysis techniques such as mapping are only useful for studying physical systems

False: Techniques of geographic analysis are applied in all fields of geography

An area of essential uniformity for a single physical or cultural feature or a limited combination of physical and cultural features is called a _____region

Formal

The structure of geography as the study of both the physical and cultural aspects of place was developed by early ____ geographers

Greek

The Midwest and New England are examples of _________ regions

Perceptual

Match two major branches of geography with their main focus of study. -Physical -Human

Physical: Focus on the natural environment; land forms, climate, vegetation Human: Focus on people, culture, religion, cities

T/F: No two palces on the surface of the Earth can be exactly the same

True

A place's ____ is precisely determined by the use of an accepted system of coordinates

absolute location

While distance refers to how far one place is from another, _______ refers to the ease with which that distance can be covered

accessibility

Absolute direction

based on cardinal points of north, south, west and east

Food Chain

is a sequence of

Situation

refers to the relations between a place and other places

Absolute distance

refers to the spatial separation between two points on earth's surface

An area that displays internal uniformity and external differences from surrounding territories is referred to as a(n) _____

region

The term_________ refers to both the size of a unit studied and the relationship between an area on a map and the actual size of the mapped area on the surface of the Earth

scale

Geographers believe that recognizing _____ patterns is the essential starting point for understanding how people live on and shape the Earth's surface

spatial

Site

the absolute location concept (exact location of a place)

Absolute direction is based upon which of the following:

the cardinal points of north, south, east, and west

Which of the following is not an example of how the attributes of a place can change

the changing of the seasons

Relative Location

the position of a place or thing in relation to that of other places or things

_____ is a measure of how easy it is to cover a distance and get from one place to another

Accessibility

True statment

Although geography consists of a number of distinct fields of study, they are in fact closely related and interconnected.

What is geography?

The study of the earth, space, and how things change over a distance.

Which of the following are examples of spatial associations?

-incidences of asthma attacks in major cities compared to rural areas -the vegetation found in a particular climatic region -higher crime rates in areas with high population density

______ is the study of physical and cultural spatial patterns and how they evolve through time

Geography

Increasing interconnection of more and more peoples and parts of the world has allowed social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental processes to become international in scale and effect. This increases in the scale of spatial interactions is referred to as __________

Globalization

_______direction such as "out West" are culturally based and locationally variable

Relative

A core concept in geography is that of ______; understanding how natural and human phenomena are distributed on Earth's surface

Spatial patterns

Absolute location

is the identification of place by precise and accepted system of coordinates.

Absolute location

the identification of place by precise and accepted system of coordinates

Situation

the relations between a place and other places