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Explain Carl Sauer's Cultural Landscape theory.

Focuses on items placed on the landscape by people ("culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape is the result")

What is a Functional / Nodal region?

Some characteristic dominates a specific area and diminishes the further it gets from the focal point (newspaper, radio station, etc.)

What is a Formal / Uniform region?

Place where everyone shares at least one specific characteristic (language, economy, etc.)

Explain scale of analysis.

Focuses on some type of data and its distribution across space (tracking a disease, trend, etc.)

Explain the "why of where" concept.

Understanding why things occur where they do. This illustrates the fact that spatial patterns are important.

Explain space-time compression?

As communication / technology improves, the time it takes to travel decreases making it seem as if places are closer

What are the five themes of geography?

place, region, movement, location, human-environment interaction

What are the four traditions according to W. D. Pattison?

Area-analysis, culture-environment, earth-science, and locational

How do geographers define the concept of "place?"

A location on the Earth's surface that has distinct / unique characteristics.

Which would be a larger cartographic scale (city, country, or world map)?

City

What is cartography?

The art / science of mapmaking

On a Mercator projection map, where is there distortion?

Nearest the poles

What are choropleth maps

Thematic maps that use shades of a color to illustrate certain aspects of data

GIS

A set of computer tool used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic data (creates thematic layers)

GPS

set of satellites used to help determine location anywhere on Earth's surface

What are the types of distortion on a map?

Shape, size, direction, distance

Tobler's First Law of Geography

Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things

Geographic Scale

Scale at which geographers analyze a particular phenomenon, for example: global, national, neighborhood, etc.

Cartographic Scale

1/1,000, 1:10,000, or 1 inch equals 5,000 inches on Earth's surface

Friction of Distance

This is the concept of how absolute distance affects the interaction between two places.

Sustainability

This is the concept that of how humans use the Earth's resources so that there will be some available for future generations.

Qualitative Data

This is examining data through more humanistic means (observations, interviews, etc.)

Physical Geography

The study of where natural forces occur (landforms, climate, vegetation, etc.)

Human Geography

The study of the spatial variation in the patterns and process related to human activity.

Quantitative Data

This is the concept of using math and statistics to analyze spatial data in geography