Human Geography Basic Terms

Remote sensing is use for ______________.

• Detecting plant health

• Measuring snowpack

• Monitoring wetlands

• All of the above

The act of money, trade, and economy. What lens goes with this sentence?

• Regional Analysis

• Sustainability

• Globalization

• Gender Equality

The belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development.

• Environmental determinism

• Time-space compression

• Distance decay

• Possibilism

Which theme answers the question "What is it like there?"

• Place

• Location

• Human-Environment Interaction

• Movement

When an environment impacts the culture and vise versa.

• Cultural trait

• Cultural Landscape

• Cultural Ecology

• Culture

a way of life of a group of people who share similar culture traits, including beliefs, customs, technology, and material items

• Cultural Hearth

• Culture

• Cultural Diffusion

• Cultural Givings

The transmission of elements/features from one culture to another. What lens goes with this sentence?

• Diffusion

• Scale of Analysis

• Sustainability

• Regional Analysis

Traditionally North American produce being served in Europe or Africa would be an example of

• diffusion

• complementarity

• hierarchy

• accessibility

When a society is NOT shaped by the environment, but instead adjusts to hot and arid (dry) climatic conditions by building an indoor ski slope in Dubai, this is an example of:

A) cl

• climate.

• environmental determinism.

• possibilism.

• spatial association.

Multiple "layers" of spatial information are stored in a computer system known as a(n):

• GPS (Global Positioning System).

• API.

• remote sensing. 

• GIS (Geographic Information Systems).