Key-Review:Unit 1
Name:Period:
Key-Review:Unit 1
Geography literally means:
What do LDC and MDC stand for? Which one usually means wealthy country, and which means poor?
Vocabulary of the Ancients
SiteSituationDistribution Concentration Space-time compression
Scale DiffusionDensityConnections Space
__SITUATION__Means relative location. A location relative to other places.
__DISTRIBUTION___Spatial arrangement of something on the earth’s surface.
__SITE__Specific physical characteristics of a place.
_CONNEC TIONS__Relationship among people and objects across space.
__DIFFUSION___The way phenomena, ideas, and technology travel over space.
__SCALE___Ratio between the map and the distance on the earth’s surface.
__S/T COMPRESSION___Reduction in the amount of time it takes for something to reach another place.
_CONCENTRATION___Way is feature is spread over an area.
__SPACE___Physical gap or distance between two objects.
__DENSITY___The frequency with which something occurs in space.
People in Geography (Use pages 6-7 in your book)
First person to use the word geography. ERATOSTHENES
The “father of Chinese cartography”; produced a map of China in 267 AD. PhEI ITSUI
First person to show that the earth was spherical. ARISTOTLE
A center for ancient thought and mapmaking in the ancient world. MILETUS
Roman who created maps which were used for over one thousand years. PTOLEMY
Produced the first geography book (500 BC). HECATEUS
Maps
What are the weaknesses of each projection?
PETERS – LANDMASSES TOO LARGE AT LOW LATITUDES, TOO SMALL AT HIGH LATITUDES
MERCATOR – LANDMASSES FAR TOO LARGE AT HIGH LATITUDES, SUCH AS GREENLAND.
ROBINSON – FAIRLY ACCURATE EVERYWHERE; SLIGHT DISTORTION AT POLES AND EXTREME EAST AND WEST.
AZIMUTHAL – ACCURATE AT POLES, LESS ACCURATE AT EQUATOR.
Diffusion
What is diffusion?
- Hierarchical diffusionB. Contagious diffusion
C. Stimulus diffusionD. Relocation diffusion
__D__Example: Jews leaving Europe after the Holocaust
__B__Example: The spread of Islam from Mecca throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia.
__D___The spread of an idea by the physical movement of people from one place to another.
__A___Example: the spread of Twitter information
__B__Example: the spread of the H1N1 swine flu.
___B__Rapid, widespread diffusion of an idea through an entire population.
___D__ Example: Residents of New Orleans moving to other areas after Hurricane Katrina.
__C___The spread of an underlying principle, even if the whole idea fails to diffuse.
___A__Example: The spread of AIDS from urban area to urban area.
___A__The spread of an idea from persons of authority or power to other similar persons or places.
__C___Example: The spread of MacDonald’s to Hindu areas of India.
___B__Example: The spread of undead zombies.
___D__Example: Migrant workers entering the US from Mexico.
___A__Example: The popularity of NASCAR is reverse ______.
__A___Example: The initial spread of flat screen plasma televisions.
___C__Example: Modern Mormons rejecting the polygamy of old Mormonism.
__A___Example: The spread of Enlightenment ideas in the 1700s among nobility and intellectuals.
___D__The only diffusion that is NOT expansion diffusion.
The place from which an innovation originates is the ___HEARTH___.
The term referring to the diminishing power of ideas as two groups get farther away is:DISTANCE DECAY
Miscellaneous
__LAND ORDINANCE OF 1785___divided the American west and Midwest into grid patterns for the purpose of distributing land.
How GPS systems establish a location?
THROUGH TRIANGULATION INVOLVING SATELLITES
The longest toponym on earth is: PAGE 14
An azimuthal projection is viewed from the _NORTH_ or _SOUTH POLE.
What are the projection layers called which include various amounts of information, from physical features, to traffic pattern, to political division, etc.?
GIS
What is a polder? Where is it used? DUTCH MANMADE BARRIER ON THE SEA TO KEEP THE OCEAN FROM FLOODING THE NETHERLANDS.
What is globalization? Describe how it affects people in the modern world across space.
INCREASING CONECTIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE AND CULTURES ALL OVER THE WORLD. AIDED BY SPACE-TIME COMPRESSION.