1. By: Lana Miller and Sarah Davidson

2. 100 Basic Geography 100 300 200 RegionsSpatial Analysis Maps and Model Tools 200 100 300 200 300 100 200 300

3. What is the study of Geography?

4. Answer: Study of the earth as created by natural forces and modified by human action

5. What is Location?

6. Answer: Explains where something is on the Earth and the effects that position has on human life

7. What is Distance Decay?

8. Answer: occurs when the intensity of some phenomenon decreases as distance increases

9. What are the three types of Expansion Diffusion?

10. Answer: Hierarchical, Contagious, and Stimulus

11. What is Accessibility?

12. Answer: The opportunity for contact or interaction from a given point or location in relation to other locations

13. What is Physiological Density?

14. Answer: # of persons per unit of area suitable agriculture

15. What are Reference Maps?

16. Answer: They show common features such as boundaries, roads, and mountains

17. What are Dot Maps?

18. Answer: Single dot or other symbol represents a specified number of occurrences of some particular phenomenon or event

19. What does the Mercator Projection do?

20. Answer: It preserves direction but distorts area (higher latitudes are distorted)

21. What are the three types of Regions?

22. Answer: Formal, Functional, and Perceptual

23. What is a Perceptual Region?

24. Answer: vernacular region, is a place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

25. What is Irredentism?

26. Answer: Assertion by the government of a country that a minority living outside its formal border belongs to it historically and culturally.