GGH 1501 STUDY GUIDE COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS GET ALL
RIGHT [STUDY GUIDE] GRADE A+
In geography, we can describe the location of a place by, which is the physical
characteristics of a place.
site
The argument that climatic conditions in northwestern Europe led to better human
conditions is based on this approach:
environmental determinism
Every place occupies a unique location, or position, on Earth's surface.
true
Human beings began to use maps to explain where places are located around the
agricultural revolution 2000 years ago.
false
Latitudes converge at the poles.
Sequent Occupance:
successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place that add up to the cultural
landscape. this symbolizes Human Environment Interaction.
Cultural Landscape:
the fashioning of natural landscape by a culture group to fit their needs.
Arithmetic Density:
total number of people divided by total area of land. how many people per area of land.
Physiological Density:
people per unit of area of ARABLE land; how much land is being used by how many
people.
Hearth:
region from which innovative ideas originate.
Diffusion:
spread of a feature from one place to another over time.
Relocation Diffusion:
spread of an idea through physical movement from one place to another.
__ refers to the relationships among people and objects across space.
connection
A ___ is an area of the Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and
physical features.
region
A ___ is the relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual size on Earth.
map scale
In order to find our location on the Earth, we can use the coordinates of
latitude and longitude
Which map was among the first maps to show the extent of the Western Hemisphere?
,Mercator map
_______ is the time at the Prime Meridian, which is the master reference time for all points
on the Earth
Greenwich Mean Time
Using standard time zones, if a country is 60 degrees to the east of you, theoretically the
time in that location would be?
4 hours ahead of you
_________ is the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or
from other long-distance methods.
remote sensing
The name given to a place is called a
toponym
Four Earth Systems
1. lithosphere
2. hydrosphere
3. biosphere
4. atmosphere
Expansion diffusion:
spread of a feature in a snowballing process; happens 1 of 3 ways: hierarchical
diffusion, contagious diffusion, stimulus diffusion.
Hierarchical Diffusion:
spread from a person of authority to other persons and places.
Contagious Diffusion:
the rapid widespread diffusion throughout a population.
Absolute Distance:
exact measurements between two places.
Relative Distance:
approximate measurement between two places.
Distribution:
arrangement of things across Earth's surface.
Environmental Determinism:
geography is the study of how the physical environment caused by human activities.
Stimulus Diffusion:
underlying principle of a characteristic spreads although characteristic failed.
Absolute Location
position marked using longitude and latitude.
Relative Location:
position relative to other features.
Site:
character of a place; what is found at the location and why it is significant.
Situation:
location relative to other places.
Space Time Compression:
reduction of time to diffuse something because of improvements in Technology.
Friction of Distance:
,distance requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy so interactions tend to
take place more often over shorter distances.
Distance Decay:
the farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two groups are to interact.
Networks:
interconnected nodes without a center.
Connectivity:
relationships across the barrier of space.
Accessibility:
degree of ease to reach a certain location from other locations.
Space:
physical gap between two objects.
Spatial Distribution:
location of phenomenon across SPACE
Size:
estimation of extent
Scale:
representation of real phenomenons at a level of reduction or generalization.
Formal Region: (uniform)
every one shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics like language or
climate.
Functional Region: (nodal)
area organized around a node or focal point that dominates at the central focus.
Vernacular Region: (perceptual)
people believe it exists as a part of their cultural identity.
Possibilism:
the environment may limit some human actions but people have the ability to adjust new
environments.
Natural Landscape:
natural geographical feature created by nature over time.
Pattern:
a common property of distribution; geometric arrangements of objects in space.
Place name:
toponym; name given to a place on earth.
air pollution
presence of unwanted substances in air
noise pollution
presence of unwanted noise
Water pollution
presence of unwanted substance in water
Point Source
pollution that can be traced to specific source
Non-point Source
source of pollution is many or specific, but can't be traced
Sustainable Yield
, amount of resources that can be removed/harvested w/o compromising ecosystem/initial natural
capital
sustainable society
society whose processes/function can continue forever
Sustainability
ability to maintain function, state of being, processes
Greenwashing
marketing term for practices that suggest sustainability when its not
hunter-gather
small, mobile bands of humans that survive on whatever resources they have in territory
pastoralism
herding of animals that have been domesticated/partly domesticated
Agriculture
process of raising crops & livestock in single, sml area
Renewable
Resources that can be replenished at rate =/> rate at which used
Non-Renewable
Resources that cannot be replenished at rate they are used
Potentially Renewable
Resources that are generally renewable, but can become nonrenewable if not used wisely
Reduce
Limiting the consumption of products, decreases amount of trash & resources needed overall
Includes producing and buying fewer goods and services, buying long-lasting products that do
not need to be replaced frequently, and buying smaller sizes of items
Reuse
Taking old products and using them again, keep waste out of landfills
•Reusing goods in the way they were intended to be used and repurposing them
Recycle
processing used materials into new materials
Breaking down the original product by some physical or chemical means, retrieving the
materials, and using them as raw materials to make new products
Degradable
Resources that break down over shorter amts of time & include biodegradable waste that
originates from plants/animals
Slowly Degradable
Resources that break down over long periods of time
Non-degradable
Resources that virtually never break down & have indefinite life spans
Biodiversity
# & variety of species living in area
Public Land
any areas controlled by gov (in city, county, state, federal), funded by taxpayers
Conservationalists
lobby to preserve/maintain land & natural resources so that they may be cont to be used by
humans
Preservationists
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS GET ALL
RIGHT [STUDY GUIDE] GRADE A+
In geography, we can describe the location of a place by, which is the physical
characteristics of a place.
site
The argument that climatic conditions in northwestern Europe led to better human
conditions is based on this approach:
environmental determinism
Every place occupies a unique location, or position, on Earth's surface.
true
Human beings began to use maps to explain where places are located around the
agricultural revolution 2000 years ago.
false
Latitudes converge at the poles.
Sequent Occupance:
successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place that add up to the cultural
landscape. this symbolizes Human Environment Interaction.
Cultural Landscape:
the fashioning of natural landscape by a culture group to fit their needs.
Arithmetic Density:
total number of people divided by total area of land. how many people per area of land.
Physiological Density:
people per unit of area of ARABLE land; how much land is being used by how many
people.
Hearth:
region from which innovative ideas originate.
Diffusion:
spread of a feature from one place to another over time.
Relocation Diffusion:
spread of an idea through physical movement from one place to another.
__ refers to the relationships among people and objects across space.
connection
A ___ is an area of the Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and
physical features.
region
A ___ is the relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual size on Earth.
map scale
In order to find our location on the Earth, we can use the coordinates of
latitude and longitude
Which map was among the first maps to show the extent of the Western Hemisphere?
,Mercator map
_______ is the time at the Prime Meridian, which is the master reference time for all points
on the Earth
Greenwich Mean Time
Using standard time zones, if a country is 60 degrees to the east of you, theoretically the
time in that location would be?
4 hours ahead of you
_________ is the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or
from other long-distance methods.
remote sensing
The name given to a place is called a
toponym
Four Earth Systems
1. lithosphere
2. hydrosphere
3. biosphere
4. atmosphere
Expansion diffusion:
spread of a feature in a snowballing process; happens 1 of 3 ways: hierarchical
diffusion, contagious diffusion, stimulus diffusion.
Hierarchical Diffusion:
spread from a person of authority to other persons and places.
Contagious Diffusion:
the rapid widespread diffusion throughout a population.
Absolute Distance:
exact measurements between two places.
Relative Distance:
approximate measurement between two places.
Distribution:
arrangement of things across Earth's surface.
Environmental Determinism:
geography is the study of how the physical environment caused by human activities.
Stimulus Diffusion:
underlying principle of a characteristic spreads although characteristic failed.
Absolute Location
position marked using longitude and latitude.
Relative Location:
position relative to other features.
Site:
character of a place; what is found at the location and why it is significant.
Situation:
location relative to other places.
Space Time Compression:
reduction of time to diffuse something because of improvements in Technology.
Friction of Distance:
,distance requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy so interactions tend to
take place more often over shorter distances.
Distance Decay:
the farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two groups are to interact.
Networks:
interconnected nodes without a center.
Connectivity:
relationships across the barrier of space.
Accessibility:
degree of ease to reach a certain location from other locations.
Space:
physical gap between two objects.
Spatial Distribution:
location of phenomenon across SPACE
Size:
estimation of extent
Scale:
representation of real phenomenons at a level of reduction or generalization.
Formal Region: (uniform)
every one shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics like language or
climate.
Functional Region: (nodal)
area organized around a node or focal point that dominates at the central focus.
Vernacular Region: (perceptual)
people believe it exists as a part of their cultural identity.
Possibilism:
the environment may limit some human actions but people have the ability to adjust new
environments.
Natural Landscape:
natural geographical feature created by nature over time.
Pattern:
a common property of distribution; geometric arrangements of objects in space.
Place name:
toponym; name given to a place on earth.
air pollution
presence of unwanted substances in air
noise pollution
presence of unwanted noise
Water pollution
presence of unwanted substance in water
Point Source
pollution that can be traced to specific source
Non-point Source
source of pollution is many or specific, but can't be traced
Sustainable Yield
, amount of resources that can be removed/harvested w/o compromising ecosystem/initial natural
capital
sustainable society
society whose processes/function can continue forever
Sustainability
ability to maintain function, state of being, processes
Greenwashing
marketing term for practices that suggest sustainability when its not
hunter-gather
small, mobile bands of humans that survive on whatever resources they have in territory
pastoralism
herding of animals that have been domesticated/partly domesticated
Agriculture
process of raising crops & livestock in single, sml area
Renewable
Resources that can be replenished at rate =/> rate at which used
Non-Renewable
Resources that cannot be replenished at rate they are used
Potentially Renewable
Resources that are generally renewable, but can become nonrenewable if not used wisely
Reduce
Limiting the consumption of products, decreases amount of trash & resources needed overall
Includes producing and buying fewer goods and services, buying long-lasting products that do
not need to be replaced frequently, and buying smaller sizes of items
Reuse
Taking old products and using them again, keep waste out of landfills
•Reusing goods in the way they were intended to be used and repurposing them
Recycle
processing used materials into new materials
Breaking down the original product by some physical or chemical means, retrieving the
materials, and using them as raw materials to make new products
Degradable
Resources that break down over shorter amts of time & include biodegradable waste that
originates from plants/animals
Slowly Degradable
Resources that break down over long periods of time
Non-degradable
Resources that virtually never break down & have indefinite life spans
Biodiversity
# & variety of species living in area
Public Land
any areas controlled by gov (in city, county, state, federal), funded by taxpayers
Conservationalists
lobby to preserve/maintain land & natural resources so that they may be cont to be used by
humans
Preservationists
