question

Absolute location

answer

Uses longitude and latitude to detemine the exact location of a place ex: new york city is loacted 74 degrees west longitude and 41 degrees north latitude

question

Cartography

answer

The science or practice of drawing maps

question

Circular pattern

answer

objects that circle another object; also known as centralized pattern.

question

Cultural landscapes

answer

products of interactions between humans and their environments.

question

Daylight savings time

answer

pushes the clock forward one hour in the spring in order to allow more sunlight in the afternoon during the warm spring and summer months.

question

Distortion

answer

the alteration(change) of the original shape.

question

Environmental geography

answer

a branch of geography that centers on the interaction of human and physical geography on the environment.

question

Equator

answer

imaginary circle (line) that lies exactly halfway between North/South at 0 degrees latitude.

question

Eratosthenes

answer

Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist.

question

Formal regions

answer

an area that has striking similarities in terms of one or a few physical or cultural features.

question

functional (nodal) regions

answer

an area organized around cores, or nodes.

question

GIS

answer

a computer system that captures, stores, analyzes and displays data.

question

Globalization

answer

the expansion of economic, political, and cultural activities to the point they reach and have impact on many areas of the world.

question

Greenwich Mean Time

answer

the standard time at the Prime Meridian.

question

GPS

answer

system that uses a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers to determine precise absolute locations on earth.

question

Grid pattern

answer

reflects a rectangular system or land survey adopted in much of the country under the Ordinance of 1785.

question

Hecataeus

answer

Hecataeus of Miletus, son of Hagesandrus, was an early Greek historian of a wealthy family.

question

Human geogrpahy

answer

a branch of geography that focuses on people, dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth's surface.

question

Idrisi

answer

TerrSet (formerly IDRISI) is an integrated geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing software developed by Clark Labs at Clark University for the analysis and display of digital geospatial information.

question

Kant, Immanuel

answer

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher, who, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is "the central figure of modern philosophy."

question

Landscapes

answer

the overall appearance of an area that is shaped by both human and natural influences.

question

Latitude

answer

distance north and south of the equator.

question

Linear pattern

answer

a pattern that is along straight lines, like rivers, streets, on railroad tracks.

question

Local time

answer

the time in a particular region/area expressed with reference to the meridian passing through it.

question

Location

answer

position of something on earth's surface.

question

Longitude

answer

numbering system that calculates distance east/west of the prime meridian.

question

Marsh, George Perkins

answer

George Perkins Marsh, an American diplomat and philologist, is considered by some to be America's first environmentalist and the precursor to the sustainability concept, although "conservationist" would be more accurate.

question

Mercator project

answer

Invented by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 for the specific purpose of navigating ships across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas. However the Mercator projection distorts sizes of areas particularly as you get closer to the north and south poles

question

Meridian

answer

an arc drawn between the North/South poles that measures longitude.

question

multi-national corporations

answer

have centers of operation in many parts of globe, where economic globalization is apparent through the proliferation of.

question

Parallel

answer

imaginary lines around the Earth parallel to the equator.

question

Pattern

answer

arrangement of objects on earth's surface in relationship to one another.

question

perceptual (vernacular) regions

answer

regions that aren't formal and functional; they are places that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity.

question

Periphery

answer

the outside boundary or surface of something; the region's margins.

question

Peters project

answer

The Gall-Peters projection, named after James Gall and Arno Peters, is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindrical equal-area projection.

question

Place

answer

a specific point on earth with human and physical characteristics that distinguish it from other points.

question

physical geography

answer

a branch of geography that deals with natural features and processes.

question

physical site characteristic

answer

a location that includes climate, topography, soil, water sources, vegetation, and elevation.

question

Prime meridian

answer

located at the observatory in Greenwich, England at 0 degrees longitude; an imaginary line that separates the globe into two halves, East and West.

question

Ptolemy

answer

a pattern that has no regular distortion that can be seen.

question

Random pattern

answer

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective

question

Regionalization

answer

an organization of earth's surface into distinct areas that are viewed different from other ares.

question

Robinson project

answer

The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map which shows the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find a good compromise to the problem of readily showing the whole globe as a flat image.

question

Saure, Carl

answer

1925 geographer at university of california; argued that cultural landscapes (products of complex interactions between humans and their environments); should be the fundamental focus of geographic inquiry

question

Scale

answer

relationship between the size of an object or distance between objects on a map and the ACTUAL object or distance on earth's surface.

question

Site

answer

the physical and human transformed characteristics of a place.

question

Situation

answer

the relationship of a settlement site to its surroundings and thus a factor in whether the settlement will grow or not.

question

Solar time

answer

the time based on the position of the sun in the sky, as the day progresses.

question

Space

answer

Physical gap or distance between two objects.

question

Space time compression

answer

a term used by geographers to describe the changes that rapid connections among places and regions have brought.

question

Spatial organization

answer

location of places, people, and events, and the connections among places and landscapes.

question

Spatial perspective

answer

Geographers concentrate on the "where" and by doing this they may be able to gain a better understanding of what is being studied than if the "where" were ignored. This is the "Spatial Perspective" that is peculiar to the study of geography.

question

Time zone

answer

a region that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time.

question

Topography

answer

the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.

question

Toponym

answer

places on earth that has names.

question

U.S. Census Bureau

answer

one the biggest employers of geographers in the U.S.; government program that surveys the population every ten years in order to aid official plans and fund certain programs.

question

"why of where"

answer

explanations for why a spatial pattern occurs.

Ap Human Geography Chapter 1 Vocab Answers – Flashcards

Unlock all answers in this set

Haven't found what you were looking for?

Search for samples, answers to your questions and flashcards