APHG Mid-Term Review Questions
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- Location Theory
- Such undertakings have fostered an interest in _______ ,an element of contremporary human geography.
- Perceptual Regions
- What is designed to help us understand the nature and distiribution of phenomenon in geography?
- HIerarchial Diffusion
- ________ transfers from person to person unlike a contagious diffusion.
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- What fraction of the world is seriously malnourished
- Spatial Distripution
- Density,dispersion, and pattern are all part of what?
- Distorted
- Maps are usually __________ becasue is it difficult to get a globe on a flat suface
- Technology
- _____________ is the result of the characteristices of places today.
- Generalize
- When mapping data, wheather human or physical cartographers _________ the information the present on maps.
- Culture Trait
- The wearing of a turban in certain muslim societies is a ________.
- 180
- The distance between the poles is ______ degrees.
- Functional
- A city is a _______ region.
- Ten
- Parallels are usually set at ________ intervals from north to south.
- Visible Uniformity
- Not all regions are of the same type, some are marked by _______.
- Generlization
- Scale implies the degree of ________ represented.
- Cultural Barriers
- What can also work against diffusion?
- Geographic Concepts
- Relative Location,mental maps,sense of place, diffusion and cultural landscapes are all _______ _________.
- Independant invention
- The term for a trait with many hearths that develop independant of each other is ______ ________.
- Spatial Patterns
- Geograpghers are most interested in analyzing ____________.
- Poverty
- One of the major causes of malnourishment is ___________
- Scale
- The distance on a map compared to the distance on the earth is the ________.
- Landscape
- _______________ refers to the material character of a place.
- Parallels
- _____________ decrease in length as they near the poles.
- Meridians
- All _______ are of equal length; each one is __________ the length of the equator.
- Regions
- What go geographers often divide the world into for analysis?
- Human Geography
- What is the study of human phenomenon?
- Qualitative
- Thematic maps maybe either _________ or quantitve
- Placelessness
- The sense of place may be diminished or lost and replaced by a feeling of _________.
- Location
- ______ is a core element of geography
- Perceptual Regions
- The south and southwest are two examples of __________.
- Lattitudes or paralles
- ________ decreases in length as one nears the poles.
- Time, Distance
- Wheather diffusion of a cultural trait occurs depends inpart on ____ and _____ from the hearth
- Concentraion
- The opposite of dispertion is ______.
- Connectivity
- A network of places implies the exsistence of ____________.
- Evatosothens
- ____________ reputedly coined the term "geography"
- Activity Spaces
- What are those places we travel to routinly in our rounds of daily activity?
- Dispertion
- ________ is a statement of the amount od spread of a phenomenon over an area.
- One-Half
- Each meridian is _______ the lenght of the equator.
- Geography
- In ________, a region constitusion area that shares similar characteristics.
- Formal
- Within a _____ cultural region the people share on or more cultural traits.
- Culture
- Location desicions, patterns and landscape are fundamentally influenced by ______ atitudes and practices.
- Places
- All _______ on the surface of the earth have unique human and physical characteristics.
- Mercantor
- The ___________ Projection was invented by a Flemish cartographer in 1569
- Perceptual Region
- East Canada is a _____ region.
- Possiblisim
- What was expoused by geographers who argued that the natural enviorment merly serves to limit the range of chonics avalible to a culture?
- Absolute Location
- This type of location does not change.
- Remotly Sensed
- ________ ________ data are collected by satellites and aircraft.
- Contour
- _________ maps represent a certain consisten height aboe mean sea level.
- Cultural Geography
- ___________ is considered to be synonymous with human geography.
- Smaller
- The Larger the scael, the __________ is the depicted area and the more accuratlycan its content be represented.
- Global
- Geograpghers study places at a variety of scales including local, regional, national and _________ scales
- Global Positioniny Ststems (GPS)
- What allows us to locate things on the surface of the earth within extra ordinary accuracy?
- Relocation Diffusion
- ________ ________ occurs more frequently through migration
- Choropleth
- A _________ map presents average value of the data studied per preexisting areal unit.
- isopleth
- On __________ maps the calculation refers not to a point but to an areal statistic
- Planar
- Projection is a good choice for a map of the artic ocean or the antartic continent.