By: Lana Miller and Sarah Davidson
100 Basic Geography RegionsSpatial Analysis Maps and Model Tools
What is the study of Geography?
Answer: Study of the earth as created by natural forces and modified by human action
What is Location?
Answer: Explains where something is on the Earth and the effects that position has on human life
What is Distance Decay?
Answer: occurs when the intensity of some phenomenon decreases as distance increases
What are the three types of Expansion Diffusion?
Answer: Hierarchical, Contagious, and Stimulus
What is Accessibility?
Answer: The opportunity for contact or interaction from a given point or location in relation to other locations
What is Physiological Density?
Answer: # of persons per unit of area suitable agriculture
What are Reference Maps?
Answer: They show common features such as boundaries, roads, and mountains
What are Dot Maps?
Answer: Single dot or other symbol represents a specified number of occurrences of some particular phenomenon or event
What does the Mercator Projection do?
Answer: It preserves direction but distorts area (higher latitudes are distorted)
What are the three types of Regions?
Answer: Formal, Functional, and Perceptual
What is a Perceptual Region?
Answer: vernacular region, is a place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
What is Irredentism?
Answer: Assertion by the government of a country that a minority living outside its formal border belongs to it historically and culturally.