APHG Unit I Miscellaneous

APHG Unit I Miscellaneous

Unit I Major Ideas

• 5 Themes

• Geographers

• Cartography

• Geographic Data

Things to add

• Thinking spatially

• Toponyms

• Scale

• Site and Situation

• Density

Thinking Spatially

• Space is the area between objects

• Thinking spatially (about space, or with space in mind) means that we have to consider how that distance affects the objects.

Toponyms

• One of the most important ways in which we differentiate places.

• Toponyms are literally place names.

Scale

• Relationship of an object or place to the Earth as a whole.

• Micro -> Macro

• Local -> Global

Site and Situation

• Site is the physical characteristics of a place

• Situation is it's interrelatedness with other places.

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Density

• Arithmetic Density: Number of objects per square unit of area.

• Agricultural Density: Number of people per square unit of farmable land.

• Physiologic Density: Number of people per square unit of arable land.

Multiple Choice

Billy thinks that in the south, everyone eats grits, eats fried chicken and watches football. He would be creating what type of region of the south with these ideas?

• Formal

• Functional

• Vernacular

• Uniform

Multiple Choice

Which of these people coined the term "Geography?"

• Ibn Battuta

• Ratzel

• Eratosthenes

• Ptolemy

Multiple Choice

What is cartography?

• the study of the Earth's surface, its atmosphere and its features

• the study and practice of making maps

• the average weather in a place over many years

• the study of the human past

Multiple Choice

The arithmetic density of population for a country is determined by dividing the total

• population by the number of farmers.

• area of square miles by 5.

• area of the country by the population.

• population by the total area.

Multiple Choice

a specific location, characterized by both the physical and human features

• site

• situation

• scenery

• sustainable

Multiple Choice

a settlement's relative location and connectivity to sustainable resources

• site

• situation

• scenery

• suburban

Multiple Choice

Representation of a real world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization (ex. local, regional, global)

• Mental Maps
• Scale
• GPS
• Regions

Multiple Choice

Which of the following uses a coordinate system to precisely plot where something is.

• Relative location
• Absolute location
• Generalized Maps
• GIS

Multiple Choice

Which of the following do geographers use to compare a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representations of the environment by combining layers of spatial data, and creating maps in which patterns and processes are superimposed?

• GPS
• GIS
• Scale
• Mental Maps

Multiple Choice

What is spatial perspective?

• Changes across space
• How different cultures spread
• The spreading of disease
• The continuity amongst the world