Geography Quiz

The study of human characteristics on the landscape

• environmental determinism

• site

• human geography

• situation

How something is spread over an area

• concentration

• density

• distribution

• diffusion

Allows geographer to see land use changing over time by comparing pictures of places from years past to current photographs, e.g., Google Earth.

• planar projection

• ariel photography

• 5 Themes of Geography

• Formal Regions

Movement of any characteristic, relates to spatial interaction theme. The place where the characteristic began is known as the heart.

• Diffusion

• Concentration

• Distribution

• Density

Definition: Proposes that cultures are a direct result of where they exist. Concluded that warmer climates tend to cause inhabitants to have a more relaxed attitude toward work and progress. This philosophy led some people to believe that Europeans and those from more temperate climates were more motivated, intelligent, and culturally advanced than those of warmer climates.

• contagious diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• environmental determinism

• stimulus diffusion

Definition: Total number of people divided by farmable land.

• agricultural density

• physiological density

• diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

Definition: Description of what and how we see and experience a certain aspect of the Earth's surface. Places define and refine what we are. It is the description of what the location is like. Ex. hot, cold, and busy can all be used when describing a certain location.

• Location

• Geography

• Region

• Place

Definition: causes distortion to show largest or smallest.

• dot maps

• possiblblst

• cartograms

• choropleth map

Definition: where anything and everything inside has the same characteristic or phenomena. These characteristics might be religion, language, or cultural. ex. Corn Belt: same crops

• Functional Regions

• Formal Regions

• Geography

• Situation

Definition: uses geographic information and layers it into a new map showing specific types of geographic

• Human geography

• Distribution

• Gps (global positioning system)

• GIS (geographic information system)