Chapter 1 Test Corrections
Part 1:
1. T : The communication revolution that promotes globalization of culture also permits preservation of culture.
4. T : Globalization of the economy has led to more specialization at the local level.
18. D : As you move the north of the Us to the south the language starts to change into spanish this is an example of a functional region.
27. C : The diffusion of HIV/AIDS in the US is an example of relocation diffusion.
29. B : The diffusion of HIV/AIDS prevention in the US is an example of hierarchical diffusion.
33. A : transnational companies tend not to relocate their command center out of developed countries.
35. A : Globalization in the economy has leveled economic differences.
42. C : Collecting data about the earths surface or from far away is know as remote sensing.
46. B : Eratosthenes was the first person to use the world geography.
47. B : Cartography is the study or science of making maps.
48. D: The spread of McDonald's represents the globalization of the economy.
51. C: Holland turned the Zuider Zee into a fresh water lake by using a dike to close off the saltwater river running into it.
60. C: An area distinguished for one or more characteristics is know as a region.
62. D: The barrier islands of Florida are; an attractive location for living, large sandbars that shield the mainland, and low lying costal reefs.
64. C: Geography is the study of humans over space.
Part 2:
1. Define geography. # the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
2. What geographic demographic concepts must you consider n discussing why a half dozen fast food restaurants are clustered at a single interstate interchange instead of being spread out?
# Because it is a known location that will attract customers.
3. McDonald’s is a multi-national “global corporation” that addresses local diversity in its products. Discuss.
#They added certain ingredients to the food because the food is different around the world.
4. What are the five ways geographers think about the earth?
#Location ( where you are at) - exact (longitude and latitude in degrees) and relative (description of where the place is,) place (a location described in terms of its human and natural characteristics), region (an area on the globe that shares certain characteristics) , movement (people, resources, ideas, goods), interaction between people and environment (dams - takes away rivers, houses - make the climate manageable - ac unit creates pollution,
5. What is spatial thinking?
#Thinking of the ways things are arranged in space.
6. What is distribution
#The arrangement across the earth's surface
7. What is density?
#The frequency that something occurs
8. What is concentration?
#a close gathering of people or things.
9. What is pattern?
#Land ownership lines - the geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area
10. What is a map and why do maps use scale? What is scale?
#A map is something that shows the layout of a geometric place. Scale is used to show the details of a place on a small surface.
11. Why use maps? Why use scale?
#To see where things are in relation to each other. To see the ration between the size of an area on a map and he actual size area on the earth's surface.
12. Who were Ptolemy and the other principle early geographers? 13. What is remote sensing?
#Eratosthenes: first person to use the word geography
#Ptolemy: wrote Geography
14. What are GIS and GPS?
#GIS: tracks a specific point
#GPS: tracks people and analyzes the data
15. What is projection? What are its limitations?
#Projection is used to show a 3D object on a flat surface
#with projection the size of things can be distorted
16. What is place?
#is a specific place on earth distinguished by a specific character
17. What is location?
#location is the position of anything on the earth's surface
18. How are place names chosen?
#physical environment, human names, and the name of some where else
19. The location of a place is described by its site. What is site?
#The physical characteristics of a place
20. What is situation?
#The location of a place relative to other things.
21. What is mathematical location?
#longitude / latitude
22. How many time zones does the earth have?
#24
23. How was longitude figured out?
#since the earth moves 15 degrees every hour and there are 24 hours in a day every line of longitude is 15 degrees apart.
24. What is a geographic region?
#places that have common traits
26.What is a vernacular region? Give a couple of examples of one.
# places that have similar ways of speaking. USA/Mexico boarder , Europe
27. Define culture.
# the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
28. What is cultural ecology?
#Cultural economics is the branch of economics that studies the relation of culture to economic outcomes. Here, 'culture' is defined by shared beliefs and preferences of respective groups. Programmatic issues include whether and how much culture matters as to economic outcomes and what its relation is to institutions.
29. What is possibilism?
# Human have the ability to to take advantage of there environment.
30. Describe how the cultural ecology of South Florida has been environmentally insensitive.
# People build sea walls to defend them from the water.
31. What is spatial association?
# how things are layed out in association with other things.
32. Define globalization.
# A process that requires the whole world or makes something world wide in score.
33. What organizations have led the world in globalizing the economy? How has the globalization of the economy been able to happen?
# Coke-Cola
35. What kind of technology plays a huge role in all of this?
# internet
36. What is space-time compression and why is it happening?
# Making things seem closer because of new technologies, this helps people communicate over vast distances.
37. Describe how spatial interaction takes place.
# through cars and planes and televisions
38. What networks facilitate spatial interaction?
# Large translational companies - airline or tv stations
40. What do you call the origin of a cultural innovation?
# Hearth
41. Name and describe the two stages of cultural diffusion.
# Relocation : spread of ideas through people moving from one place to another
# Expansion : spread of things in a snow balling process
42 How has diffusion of culture and economy influenced the fate of all workers in industry in a globalized world?
# The workers got treated better overal.
Part 3:
Part 4:
*Question: If there were no maps, could geography exist as a discipline? Why or why not?
Without maps geography would still exist. It would still exist because they help society grow and exist within there environment, they help city planners plan there city on good stable ground, and they help predict the weather. Geographers help society grow and they use maps to do this, however a map is just a tool that makes it easier without maps geographers can still help society grow. Society needs to know where to settle and what is the easiest trade route. Geographers help city planners build power plants on solid ground, establish dams on strong streams, and help decide how big cities can be. One of geographers key roles is the predict the weather. The weather forecast is used to help almost every industry plan when and how to do something. Geographers do not need maps to do this. All in all, geographers do a verity of different tasks that do not need a map.
1. T : The communication revolution that promotes globalization of culture also permits preservation of culture.
4. T : Globalization of the economy has led to more specialization at the local level.
18. D : As you move the north of the Us to the south the language starts to change into spanish this is an example of a functional region.
27. C : The diffusion of HIV/AIDS in the US is an example of relocation diffusion.
29. B : The diffusion of HIV/AIDS prevention in the US is an example of hierarchical diffusion.
33. A : transnational companies tend not to relocate their command center out of developed countries.
35. A : Globalization in the economy has leveled economic differences.
42. C : Collecting data about the earths surface or from far away is know as remote sensing.
46. B : Eratosthenes was the first person to use the world geography.
47. B : Cartography is the study or science of making maps.
48. D: The spread of McDonald's represents the globalization of the economy.
51. C: Holland turned the Zuider Zee into a fresh water lake by using a dike to close off the saltwater river running into it.
60. C: An area distinguished for one or more characteristics is know as a region.
62. D: The barrier islands of Florida are; an attractive location for living, large sandbars that shield the mainland, and low lying costal reefs.
64. C: Geography is the study of humans over space.
Part 2:
1. Define geography. # the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
2. What geographic demographic concepts must you consider n discussing why a half dozen fast food restaurants are clustered at a single interstate interchange instead of being spread out?
# Because it is a known location that will attract customers.
3. McDonald’s is a multi-national “global corporation” that addresses local diversity in its products. Discuss.
#They added certain ingredients to the food because the food is different around the world.
4. What are the five ways geographers think about the earth?
#Location ( where you are at) - exact (longitude and latitude in degrees) and relative (description of where the place is,) place (a location described in terms of its human and natural characteristics), region (an area on the globe that shares certain characteristics) , movement (people, resources, ideas, goods), interaction between people and environment (dams - takes away rivers, houses - make the climate manageable - ac unit creates pollution,
5. What is spatial thinking?
#Thinking of the ways things are arranged in space.
6. What is distribution
#The arrangement across the earth's surface
7. What is density?
#The frequency that something occurs
8. What is concentration?
#a close gathering of people or things.
9. What is pattern?
#Land ownership lines - the geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area
10. What is a map and why do maps use scale? What is scale?
#A map is something that shows the layout of a geometric place. Scale is used to show the details of a place on a small surface.
11. Why use maps? Why use scale?
#To see where things are in relation to each other. To see the ration between the size of an area on a map and he actual size area on the earth's surface.
12. Who were Ptolemy and the other principle early geographers? 13. What is remote sensing?
#Eratosthenes: first person to use the word geography
#Ptolemy: wrote Geography
14. What are GIS and GPS?
#GIS: tracks a specific point
#GPS: tracks people and analyzes the data
15. What is projection? What are its limitations?
#Projection is used to show a 3D object on a flat surface
#with projection the size of things can be distorted
16. What is place?
#is a specific place on earth distinguished by a specific character
17. What is location?
#location is the position of anything on the earth's surface
18. How are place names chosen?
#physical environment, human names, and the name of some where else
19. The location of a place is described by its site. What is site?
#The physical characteristics of a place
20. What is situation?
#The location of a place relative to other things.
21. What is mathematical location?
#longitude / latitude
22. How many time zones does the earth have?
#24
23. How was longitude figured out?
#since the earth moves 15 degrees every hour and there are 24 hours in a day every line of longitude is 15 degrees apart.
24. What is a geographic region?
#places that have common traits
26.What is a vernacular region? Give a couple of examples of one.
# places that have similar ways of speaking. USA/Mexico boarder , Europe
27. Define culture.
# the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
28. What is cultural ecology?
#Cultural economics is the branch of economics that studies the relation of culture to economic outcomes. Here, 'culture' is defined by shared beliefs and preferences of respective groups. Programmatic issues include whether and how much culture matters as to economic outcomes and what its relation is to institutions.
29. What is possibilism?
# Human have the ability to to take advantage of there environment.
30. Describe how the cultural ecology of South Florida has been environmentally insensitive.
# People build sea walls to defend them from the water.
31. What is spatial association?
# how things are layed out in association with other things.
32. Define globalization.
# A process that requires the whole world or makes something world wide in score.
33. What organizations have led the world in globalizing the economy? How has the globalization of the economy been able to happen?
# Coke-Cola
35. What kind of technology plays a huge role in all of this?
# internet
36. What is space-time compression and why is it happening?
# Making things seem closer because of new technologies, this helps people communicate over vast distances.
37. Describe how spatial interaction takes place.
# through cars and planes and televisions
38. What networks facilitate spatial interaction?
# Large translational companies - airline or tv stations
40. What do you call the origin of a cultural innovation?
# Hearth
41. Name and describe the two stages of cultural diffusion.
# Relocation : spread of ideas through people moving from one place to another
# Expansion : spread of things in a snow balling process
42 How has diffusion of culture and economy influenced the fate of all workers in industry in a globalized world?
# The workers got treated better overal.
Part 3:
- Density
- Formal , Informal , Vernacular
- Linear scale
- toponym (or name), site, situation, mathematical
- Environmental Determinism, Geologic Possibilism
- map , 2000 , earth
- longitude , latitude
- Density
- informal
- relative location
Part 4:
*Question: If there were no maps, could geography exist as a discipline? Why or why not?
Without maps geography would still exist. It would still exist because they help society grow and exist within there environment, they help city planners plan there city on good stable ground, and they help predict the weather. Geographers help society grow and they use maps to do this, however a map is just a tool that makes it easier without maps geographers can still help society grow. Society needs to know where to settle and what is the easiest trade route. Geographers help city planners build power plants on solid ground, establish dams on strong streams, and help decide how big cities can be. One of geographers key roles is the predict the weather. The weather forecast is used to help almost every industry plan when and how to do something. Geographers do not need maps to do this. All in all, geographers do a verity of different tasks that do not need a map.