APHG Unit 1-3 Review

The concept of distance decay is best described in which scenario?

• When fewer people read the Orange County Register the farther you are away from Orange County.

• People throughout a region generally speaking German.

• When many people move to another area using an ocean vessel.

• The diffusion of a disease along a highway corridor.

The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called: 

• A.  referenced location 
• A.  central location
• A.  relative location
• A.  absolute location 

The visible imprint put on the environment by people is called?

• Cultural Landscape
• Place
• Location
• Human Environment Interaction

Measuring the distance people are willing to travel to shop at a store would be creating what type of region for that store?

• Formal
• Perceptual
• Functional
• Uniform

The spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior is called ____.

• acculturation
• innovation
• cultural hearth
• diffusion

Areas that share similar characteristics are called

• human systems

• environments

• regions

• physical systems

Environment influences, but does not strictly determine, how a culture interacts with the environment.

• Environmental Determinism
• Environmental Possibilism
• Cultural Determinism
• Cultural Environmentalism

An area on the Earth defined by the feelings and images about the cultural identity of the area. Tend to have unclear boundaries. 

• Perceptual/Vernacular region
• Formal/Uniform region
• Functional/Nodal region 

The relationship between any phenomenon and the earth as a whole.  Looking at the impact something has locally, regionally, globally, etc....

• Space
• Diffusion
• Place
• Scale

The region from which innovative ideas originate 

• site
• hearth
• place
• polder